fobotcso
Thank you ever, ever so much, that has indeed got boy 1 back on the internet.
Strangely, the NIC is still running at 10mbps (this is really odd, as I have tried two different NICs) but that doesn't matter as he only uses the LAN to access the internet, which peaks at 512kbps, of course. Nonetheless it's really odd.
Anyway, I owe you a great debt of gratitude, so many, many thanks,
W