Hi both and thanks for the replies.
As I said, I've moved house! My previous ISP, Tiscali, was no longer available to new connections so I went with TalkTalk (who bought out Tiscali) as they had virtually the identical deal available as I had previously been on.
My old line gave me about 6Mb speed. My new line gives around 2.9Mb (it's an 'up to 8Mb' deal). I assume the difference between the two is because I am now on a different exchange than before, further away than before and there is probably more traffic on the line. What I would like to know, is there any way I can improve my line speed etc from my end, or is it entirely at the ISP's end? Are there any tweaks I can make that would make a difference? If it is the ISP, how would I go about getting a better profile/speed?
The DNS server question is that I found two TC/IP versions installed - v4(set as 'local') and v6(set as 'limited'). If I changed to non-ISP servers, would I need to change the settings in both versions or just the latest one (assuming v6), or could I delete the older version and just use the latest? Also, would I need to change the router settings to match the connection settings?
I don't like to poke about with things I don't really understand (there lies madness!) without taking advice from you good folks first!
Regards
Rich