I've been having problems connecting to the internet for over a week now and i've tried pretty much everything to sort it out. On Sunday, i contacted my ISP who advised me that it was a problem with my Channel settings on the router. I changed to the settings that they suggested but with limited or no success. Some sites connect pretty much straight away, other sites appear really slow, and some don't work at all, including google and hotmail (similar problems on other devices and not just my laptop).

Anyways, after reading many blogs about the potential problems, it looked like my router could be the cause of the issues, and as it was pretty old anyway, i decided to invest in a new one which, although appears to have improved the speed of the network, hasn't helped the main problem i was experiencing with my old router.

I was wondering if anyone could help me further as this now appears to be a network problem and not a problem that i can fix readily, however i was wondering whether a virus could of infected my network rather than the PC and if this was the case is there any way of removing it?

Any help would be greatly appreciated as this is starting to irritate me! thanks

NB: I have just got off the phone from my ISP (for a second time) who were extremely unhelpful for about 40 minutes and finished by hanging up on me... i called them back, but they haven't been able to fix my problem! If you need any more information please ask.