I guess my router was bad because I returned the modem for a modem/router and everything was fine after that.
In any case, if anyone is interested in that new computer I got here are the specs:
also...
I was told the video card is a Sapphire Radeon HD 4850 1GB GDDR3 PCI-E, HDMI,DVI-I,VGA.
I did a little research and discovered AMD is no longer supporting this card (well, says one post I read). Does anyone know how I would go about getting the best capabilities possible for this card?
HardInfo 0.5.1 (System information and benchmark tool) says:
Display
Resolution 1280x1024 pixels
OpenGL Renderer Gallium 0.4 on AMD RV770
X11 Vendor The X.Org Foundation
Display
Display
Resolution 1280x1024 pixels
Vendor The X.Org Foundation
Version 1.15.1
Monitors
Monitor 0 1280x1024 pixels
Extensions
BIG-REQUESTS
Composite
DAMAGE
DOUBLE-BUFFER
DPMS
DRI2
DRI3
GLX
Generic Event Extension
MIT-SCREEN-SAVER
MIT-SHM
Present
RANDR
RECORD
RENDER
SECURITY
SGI-GLX
SHAPE
SYNC
X-Resource
XC-MISC
XFIXES
XFree86-DGA
XFree86-VidModeExtension
XINERAMA
XInputExtension
XKEYBOARD
XTEST
XVideo
XVideo-MotionCompensation
OpenGL
Vendor X.Org
Renderer Gallium 0.4 on AMD RV770
Version 3.0 Mesa 10.1.3
Direct Rendering Yes
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