Hey Martin,

I live in wagga wagga, NSW, Australia and my broadband connection is adsl 1500dl/256upload it does happen while online although it slows my pc down for a minute or so after i stop playing also. i havent tried opening the task manager while i play ill give it a go and see what happens.

as for the120 systems it compares me against, i believe some of them systems may be on xp but their hardware i think is exactly the same, i tried overclocking my FSB & CPU multiplier just to see what score i had and it then compared me to about 220 PC's with a score of 15000marks (mine recieved 10700 whilst overclocked as apposed to the 9100 previously).

Hope this helps a bit more,
cheers