No mate MAC address filtering is definitely off, although I may set it up now I know what I'm doing lol

bit of an update, I realised in my haste to get the PC up and running I didn't download any virus software so my PC was a playground for all sorts of shit that was flying about, one being the Agobot virus

Agobot is an IRC-controlled backdoor with network spreading capabilities

that explained why my connection was constantly transferring data. The worrying part was when I tried to get into the router settings page via the 192.xxxxx etc address it said another PC was already using that page, and as I only had one PC working at the time my guess was someone else trying to hack it... so I pulled the plug lol

Anyways I've just checked and the router can now see the PC but the PC still won't see the router. Everytime I try and open the router settings it tells me it can't open the search page (but I don't want to search lol)

Any suggestions?