Thanks Serphiroth, I do that in the morning I don't want to disturb my old dear.
My modem for a while has been dropping the connection over and over, after each reset. So I phoned VM Lol, Anways lots of more power cycling, then I was walked through putting modem back into router mode, then back to modem mode. He said there was some tinkering there side and at the end of it all some friendly advice to look in future of the forums to find out how to set modem mode. Lol, I 100% sure I was clear that my problem was about my connection dropping. Nothing like phoning a helpline and have the operator patronise, you lol it was actually funny.
Anyways, modems staying on now, and its on different upstream channels and since then the latency has dropped dramatically (more like my moms connection).
