would love if someone could give me a hand! when i use my mates laptop on my wireless broadband it way quicker compared to when i use my own desktop pc internet? any ideas?
It sounds like their wireless adapter has a higher speed allowance, although most are around 54mbps. Also, lower RAM can make Internet seem like it is slow, when changing pages.
He states in his question that he is using his own internet connection.
The other suggestions are spot on by the way.
An underpowered machine will struggle with modern cluttered web pages.
Lets not forget that your pc needs to download the page, process it, buffer it to ram, send the relative parts to your graphics card and then display it on screen.
Each major change needs to be emptied from ram and it starts all over again.
Ram is dirt cheap these days and another gig will give you a brilliant speed boost (it will also speed up FM).
Here are some links to help you on your way. (you may know them already)