You might want to check and see if the router is at fault that brand has a poor track record. I've seen that restarting routers sometimes helps. You should see if you can get internet through a radio tower. This method seems to be getting more common, and offers better speed than satellite. There is one in Missouri called Eagle Network, which specializes in rural areas. If you can sometimes see an unknown wireless network, then chances are that this service is available to you.

Sincerely,
Jacob Smith
 "...backup files that change almost daily on my desktop computer to my
> laptop, and the laptop will not allow access to some of the files on the
> laptop that I am trying to sync. A secondary (and sometimes even more
> irritating problem) is that sometimes the desktop can't seem to find the
> laptop and that's another problem.
> 
> As you can see, there seems to be multiple problems here."

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