Managed to get into the router admin pages this morning and attempted to ping using an IP address (BBC).
Hit the Ping/Send button and the page remained static. No timeout message or anything.
Also now have a few millimeters of finest HB pencil lead rattling around inside the rear of the router due to have to reset the thing so many times, last reset snapped the tip of the pencil and it ended up inside the housing
Gonna give up for Christmas and on that note
