Originally Posted by delian

Many thanks to all for the replies.

I have swapped the Wireless Access Point for a router (D-Link DI-624). After firing up the router things looked promising until what would appear to be the router crashing a short while after switching it on - it refuses to reset via reset button, status light goes off and all the Local Network Led's light up and remain on even though I have no cables plugged into the router. The Ethernet light on the cable modem goes out as well.

Unless I am no being extremely dumb (?) I think it looks like a trip back to the shop again tommorrow ......