many apologies, in my haste changing the chanels i forgot to press the pairing button, i did say i wasnt a techie . so i tried it with pairing turned on and again it said network conne ...
not yet, as im not really a techie and dont want to bugger things up that i cant sort out. the connection to my laptop hasnt been affected its just the wifi conne ...
since i got my phone in february, i paired it to my livebox because i dont have any normal signal strength so use the wifi connection to make calls and texts.