Hi all.
Managed to make a bit of progress today but it`s my last day visiting so a bit limited for time. Here is what happened.
WIFI dongle no change.
Got a good Laptop from a friend, tried WIFI and cable, Chrome, massive delay like my Dads PC, Edge worked perfectly.
Took my Dads PC to friends house, everything worked perfectly.
So this now points towards the router or the incoming signal.
Installed Intel LAN and Realtek drivers again.
I reset the router to factory default, ran the routerlogin.net programme to connect etc, took many attempts, the menu system in the Netgear genie kept resetting, like it kept loosing the internet signal and resetting the procedure.
Managed to get logged in and the router connected again, same problem with chrome, but now IE11 seems to be working, but ever few times I opened IE11, it wouldn`t even attempt to access the home page, just sat doing nothing.
Uninstallled chrome and installed again, still no good, unistalled, now using IE11.
So far IE11 seems fairly stable, using it with the WIFI dongle as have a feeling it`s more stable. But out of time to do more trouble shooting. It works enough for my Dad to watch his youtube stuff and buy stuff online etc.
When I am back in early Nov, I will bring my ITX build in my hand luggage and do some more testing, will also try a new router.
There house is old, there are phones all over the house, they crackle, sometimes work, and have buzzing noises, didn't know that until now. Filters are all in place but I think it may have something to do with it. I cant access the master phone box as its in the attic somewhere and cant find it.
Still the strange this is, IE11 seems to work normal now, speed test shows 50ms ping, 11mb DL (for middle of nowhere in Scotland is good), but I can`t get access to iTunes store, or DLC in games.
Don`t have any restore points as option disabled. Tempted to put BIOS back to version it was before I came but can`t thing why that would have messed it up.