Thanks for all your efforts. Where would i find the DHCP? I'm a little scared to disable the modem completely (as opposed to turning it off) but if there is a conflict because of similar numbers, that might be the answer. I tried it with the router on and modem off, no joy.

I must be so close, but when I put the number into IE or Firefox it tries to connect to the internet which of course it can't, instead of bringing up the log in to router window!

I haven't had any message to recognize new hardware.

Have you selected 'never dial a connection' in IE? Turn everything off, then reboot router and PC and try to connect to the router.

You won't get messages about new hardware since hardware connected across a network connection is not seen to be on your PC.

Is the router connected to the PC via one of the output ports on the router with the modem unconnected to the PC?

Substitute the your modem for the TD-8800 (the fax/printer is optional) and this is what you are trying to do.

Well done thanks thanks and thanks again it's medals for Haystack and Kayak!

Not quite sure which f your answers was the clincher but by hook or crook, I'm up and running!!

Slightest prob still exists I have clicked I wanted windows to remember my password so I have not 'secured' the connection to my ISP (others can use it). How do i make it secure with my usual password?

I'm really wishing I hadn't switched over to beta mode with my email thingie. For some reason it seemed to take 10 times longer to do anything, and I switched back. At least I thought I did :S.

I can see in the URLs when I'm trying to do stuff that beta is present in some functions, so it's obviously all in a muddle. Driving me nuts now, as most of the time I simply can't do anything. I have repeatedly cleared browsing history, which alleviates the problem for a few minutes, but of course this is also causing me problems elsewhere.

Is this a Vista issue?

my pc's about a year old and it's getting too slow to handle all the things I need to trade with. The problem has got alot worse in the last 6 weeks.

then I noticed the city equities advertisment next to my heatmap. You know the one which actually shows your name on the roulette wheel. This seems to absolutely chew up cpu time but most annoyingly if I right click on it I don't get any properties to see what software it's using.

Advice please. I had this problem about 2 years ago but in the end I paid advfn a tenner a month to not take their adverts where flash seemed to be the problem.

I think I need to find a way to turn these cpu intensive adverts off.


PS - pc is a 3.0 ghz pentium 4 with 3 gig of ram in it and a matrox g200mms quad card. I've just bought a g450mms to replace that with as it was cheap enough on ebay to see if that helps

I run a stack of applications when I'm trading but my pc could more than keep up until 6 weeks ago and I've added no new ones.

CC, use task manager to find out which processes are using up the most CPU time.

Kayak - it's the city equities advert for sure. Go to ftse100 heatmap and keep refreshing it until you city equities roulette advert. You'll know it's the right one because it's the only advert i've ever seen which has my name in it.

With just that ie screen up my cpu is running at about between 20 and 80% constantly on my laptop (less on my pc)

So i guess i'll just have to not run heatmap tomorrow and see what happens.

The City Equities causes my PC to spend about 30% of its time on iexplore.exe (MS Internet Explorer). I guess it is some Java.

Hmm. It's the City Equities ad alright -- but I don't think it's a Java issue, per se. It's definitely doing something really mill-intensive.

Is it constantly acquiring the name to display over and over again?

My surname has an S at the beginning, but City Equities have this as a 5. So it's acquiring the name by interrogating something or doing an OCR. I find this quite disturbing from a personal privacy point of view.

SC - yes I found the name disturbing at first - invasion of pricacy sort of thing but I guess City Equities don't actually have access to your details - the advert will be written by moneyam and as such they just access their own database. Very clever marketing.

Why does my surname have the 5, not an S then???

Curious.

If they are running a Java applet on your computer which has obtained that information, is there anything to stop it sending that info to City Equities?

Edit

My network crashed as I was typing the above post. Am I going paranoid?

Rob - you'll be known as 5eymour Clearly from now on -- 5C for short.

I would assume that MAM has provided an interface for the ad to address you personally and that information will not be available to City Equities, so I doubt there's a privacy issue. MAM are sensitive to such issues, I'm sure.

Optimist: Yes ;-)

Haystack: I don't think it is continually acquiring the name. But something's cosuming a lot of mill. Flash?

I had similar problems a few years ago with a Flash ad on the other side. I think some of them are just very badly written. In the ideal world web sites would test the ads before running them.

Kayak - you must mean the famous IG index ad - it was so bad I ended up paying advfn to not take their adverts. They were completely insensitive to the issue.

I'm sure moneyam will come up with a sensible solution. but for today no heatmap which is a pain.

Cheers Derek.

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