thanks birdy

Not sure but I don't think my router was set for UPnP which I have now selected the options for it to do so

I now seem to get an intermittent connection strength and the brick wall also comes and goes.

At first, I did seem to get good results from my searches but now again slow and low results. the download speed is very very slow to start but then just seems to kick in for no reason.

I really don't think its still right??!!

I am not a techy person so not sure about all this port forwarding and permanent IP addresses etc. It all makes me very, very nervous