I have been having trouble with my laptop I am using a D-Link hardline router it works fine with my desktop but even if I feed it directly into the laptop I still have trouble was working great and I tried system restore.:confused:

You might want to go check your network connections settings in the control panel. It is possible that when you did the system restore, your network connection settings got changed to a default setting or something that is not jive-ing with your current set up. If there are any network adapters (other than the nic that you are plugging your connection to your router into) that are showing to be enabled (ie wireless connection, etc) try to disable them. It should work.