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Okay, so apparently I had already downloaded both nic drivers from the Acer support site last night. I downloaded all available drivers on Acer's support site which I listed in a previous comment.
Since I had internet at one point after manipulating my connection settings and the trouble shooter keeps repeating the same error message it seems to me that the problem must be something to do with the router or some wireless setting on my pc.
Also, whenever I was installing updates and I had internet I was prompted to install Homegroup on my pc because apparently it suddenly recognized the other pc which has windows 8 installed, but I didn't have the password and opted to skip it for now. Could that somehow interfere with my connection?