The Prtscrn key is quite useful. Here's a pic of my desktop at 1709 today .
If nothing else it shows what programs I use a lot - not much MS stuff there I hope you'll notice!



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you're on wireless?  I think this is the connection speed to your router, not your actual connection speed to the net.

Ah, that would explain it I think.

I'm using Airport on my Mac, and it's one of those BT Home Hub things. I've had it for a couple of years and possibly after sitting stationary for two years, the move has proved a bit traumatic for it. No problems in my old house - I used to get full signal all the time.

Bryn, it's when sites prevent hotlinking to pix, I tried to explain this to A - round about this post http://r3ok.myforum365.com/index.php?topic=1133.msg72032#msg72032

I always check, before including a pic I've found by Googling, whether it can be hotlinked by clearing my cache then previewing the post, since once you get it in your cache - by viewing it directly - your browser will display it even if hotlinking has been prevented.

Now, it's possible that there's somebody else piggy-backing on your connection; a friend was explaining this to me a week or so ago - basically, that figure of 54.0 Mbps that time quoted earlier on is the connetion speed you've established with the router; the router (Hub) itself, while capable of handling multiple connections at once, probably only has one antenna and so is only able to broadcast at one speed - so if there's someone a little bit far away who'd only get a slight signal, when they connect, you'd, in spite of being closer, would get no faster a connection than they.  So, you could try changing your wireless password and seeing if that fixes things I guess.  There are probably other ways to monitor activity so you can know for sure, but I don't know; it might just be age after all

I've had a fraught evening trying to get one of my email accounts to work. I had decided to install a more recent version of Outlook Express on my Windows XP computer. I have 5 email address, three of the btinternet ones. They all worked except for one of the BT accounts, despite its have the same settings and password as the others. The odd thing was, my Macintosh, despite having nothing changed on it, could not log on to that account either any more.

I spent almost one hour on the BT helpline but just when they got it working, it stopped again. They told me to phone up Microsoft as it was their problem but the number they gave me turned out to be wrong. But then, it just happened to start working again, and then not working. Now it is working, despite my changing nothing. Totally weird. 

Thanks for the help with this. I've done all sorts of things with the password, the ID, the visibility of the ID, and at one stage managed to lock myself out... but I think what was actually causing the problem was someone else using the same channel. I changed it to something else and it seems to have solved the problem. Fingers crossed. Touch wood.