wahoo I still need the prices for the stuff we spoke about but with regards to the network adaptor...
matty is a legend,matty is a legend nah nah nah nah hey!

Matty pm'd me with a programme to run to assign my network adaptor a new mac address and its worked! Only thing that bothers me is Ive picked from a dropdown selection of macs and I picked one in the USA, are there any security issues etc with using a mac thats listed to a company round the world? The most I could get down was 17Mb but that may be due to my line. Programme was
http://www.technitium.com/tmac/index.html
Matty you should work in I.T
big thanks to
everybody for the help