Hi Jay,
Welcome to
CompuForums. I hope that you can post often in the future and it would be nice if you could put your town on the
member map.
If your friends are having no trouble with it then the fault lies either with your computer or your ISP. I think that it's likely that it is your ISP - what ISP are you using?
Also, do you have any routers or any other networking devices that you connect to other than your modem?