That said in the connections tab I don't have any internet connections set up. I know that kinda sounds odd, but I was told by many sources that I would ...
That doesn't change anything either. I'm starting to get the feeling this is more of a hardware problem, I can't see messing with the settings is going to do very much at this point.
The pinging came back 28 times before I stopped it, it definitely gets through. The status on the local area connection says 'Connected' and the support tab shows the connection as manually configured ...
Just to make sure, if you go into status and then support for the network connection does the status say address type is Assigned by DHCP and the IP address starts 192.168.1.xxx?