Thank you everyone for the responses. Unfortunately i pulled a dumb dumb. i have been staying at my grandfathers and what i thought was a router was not a router it was actually a box that just had an internet light but is only connected to their home phone. they did actually HAVE a wireless...
still working on it
i have turned all devices off and reset the router. i have one other laptop that uses the same router as i am using but it works fine. stays connected and doesn't have issues. sometime when i run the troubleshooter for the connection it says "wifi does not have a valid ip...
I just bought a brand new computer and i am having trouble getting it to STAY connected to the wifi. It has windows 8 which i am not to keen on, and also know veery little about. It connects fine but after anywhere from 5-30 minutes it will go to limited connectivity. After this i disconnect...