I just found a great resource full of easy to follow tutorials on
Ubuntu here

http://www.pcmech.com/article/category/video/

This is one I found for networking though it's sadly not fixed my
boxes :o( but it has shown me that I seem to have some missing
components to my distro

uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Ad17kma8rNM&feature=related

Hope this helps some of you guys out there who like me are much more
visual people rather than following some mindless CLI commands which
are just dragged out of thin air.