Superpilot - thanks for the help. I ran the Ping test, but cannot get this part to work:
After this period, within the command line window, press CTRL+C you will then get some statistics like this:
Ping statistics for 8.8.8.8:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 52ms, Maximum = 444ms, Average = 154ms
Pressing CTRL+C does nothing. But I have scanned through the continually scrolling results every few minutes and it all just appears like this:
I also wanted to try your second suggestion, and my gut feel is that this is on the right track, BUT my computer illeteracy kicked in. I cannot find that Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) Properties dialogue box. I have looked everywhere, but 'THEY' have got it hidden somewhere. I had expected to find it somewhere here,. but no luck:
Pages only partly load, for example, right now the posting toolbar (Bold, Italics, font colour, etc) won't display, nor will the pictures.