Hi , Thanks for the ideas...
Yes I had tried alternate new cable and also I updated drivers before selecting the 1GHz setting on the ethernet port .
I also rebooted laptop and unplugged cable at both ends on re-starting.
I factory reset the HUB just the other day (it's only been in place for 3 weeks !) but that was before I set the 1Ghz on ethernet port (which had previously defaulted to 100) .
I also tried the cable on a couple of different HUB ethernet ports with no improvement.
I will try another factory reset and disconnect all cables this evening when the network is free (which is rarly at the moment) - and assuming it will not impact Virgins testing ..... but was hoping there was an easy way to check the setup (or force the setup) of the Hub 3 ethernet port. A bit like at the PC port where you have the option of speed limiting the port - I wondered if the hub had the same facility that may have defaulted to 100M instead of 1G........
At the moment I cant even login to the hub anyway - not sure if Virgin are on it messing around remotely trying to fix the issue as it states there is another user on...
Thanks again - much appreciated