Dear Mud Wizard,
landlord said there is a 28 days return policy going on for the new router. so we r going to check it daily see if it has problems, we can pursue him to return it and get a better one. so i probably will stick around here for a little longer.
at the time my landlord purchased the Netgear Powerline, he spent like £50~60 on that. thats why he did not want to spend more this time. you know, lack of knowledge is a weakness. if we knew better, we would just pursue him to get a proper router like the linksys or asus one at the time, and avoid all these months of pain and suffering. well, we didnt know that superhub 1 had faults. i didnt know that until i posted here.
anyway, i want to thank you for all your kindness and help. really appreciate your patience and kind advices. thanks alot
may i ask you to tell me more about how to set my DNS, and how to port forward/DMZ my pc please?