That didnt work...  Thanks anyway.

Can anyone tell me about the Private/Public thing?

Have you tried without torrent client running ?

Yup.

Torrent clients tend to take a lot of connection resources that is why I ask but if that does not make any difference and you are sure your modem is configured as it should I am stumped (not so familiar with Vista)

Ok, thanks for trying.  I dont think its a Vista issue - everything was flying along niceley... until they changed things...

Maybe the QoS packet scheduler could give troubles try inaktivate and see if it makes any difference, should be in your network properties somewhere.

Ok, Ill try that.  Should I be rebooting each time or just reboot the router?

Can anyone tell me about the Private/Public thing?

What do ya mean public/private ?

well if Vista tell you to reboot but otherwise prolly not.

Location type in Network settings.  Public or Private.  I cant differentiate between them.

No such settings in XP I believe but wouldnt it be a public together with yer ISP and private on yer home LAN ?

if you find settings for QoS the default value in XP is 20 but I mine set on 0  (free all resources)

its a vista thing...

public is for if youre connected to a public network... it hides you and your files etc... (to stop strangers messing with things)

privat is for your home network, shared files, shared printers etc. etc.

So, Public for internet, ya?

Not sure, according to knightys answer more of a public LAN at school etc.

Hmm... confusing.

Even these forum pages are taking up to 40 seconds to load.  You can imagine my pain.
 

How do I rip everything out and start again.  The router doesnt show up in Device Manager, only the Ethernet Controller.

How do I disable the network?  Then... err reinstall?

Maybe setting up from scratch might help?