Broadband speed half of estimated speed

Hi,
Moved into a property 6 months ago and signed up to BT's Phone, Broadband and Vision services. The rated speedrange at the premises is 3 - 8Mb, with an estimated speed of 5.5. Since the line was installed I have never achieved a speed over 3mb and is usually in the region of 2.5Mb. Now whilst this is ok based on the range quoted, it does not sit well with a BT Vision service as when an on demand service is being used web use is severely limited.
Before I complain to BT that the service is not fit for purpose, I would like to confirm if my line can actually achieve anything better to avoid the BT Vision QoS hogging the bandwidth.
I have spoken to BT first line support 3 times now and they have escalated the issue to Wholesale Services/Local exchange, which has not had any affect.
The premises has been fully rewired by a previous owner who has installed a phone socket in every room. They have removed the BT Master socket, but every socket appears to be a LJU2 socket.
The wiring appears to be ok
I have performed a speed test directly to the socket closest the line entry point and this does not have a material impact. however, as this is not a BT socket, I have not been able to test it free of the other extensions as I do not want to disturb the terminal pins.
I have tested with several different filters
I have tested with separate wireless routers, an older D-Link and current Netgear NDNG3300
Lastly, Broadband is terminated when a phone call is received or a call is made.
Given the last point, there may well be an issue internally, but before I purchased a punch down tool to test the master independently I wanted to see if there was any reason for the poor performance of the line.
Any help would be appreciated.
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Hi Welcome to the forums
Here are some help pages done by CL Keith http://www.btinternet.com/~cbeddoe/speed/Speed.html
also post your full hub stats details shown in this link http://www.btinternet.com/~cbeddoe/others/adslstats.html
Can you also post the full results fromBT Speedtest speedtester.bt.com
Have you tried the quiet line test? - dial 17070 option 2 - should hear nothing - best done with a corded phone. if cordless phone you may hear a 'dull hum' which is normal
This is a customer to customer self help forum the only BT presence here are the forum moderators
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No increase in estimated speed

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Ectophile wrote:
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Dear sir Thank you very much. I am not a computer davy. still I ail try to explain. I am in Chennai India. My service provider is BSNL. I have a broadband connection wit 4 mb speed - though I get only 3 to 3.3 mb. The TC is connected to the modem *** rou

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Take a look at my recent saga with an 'upgrade' to Infinity that not only didn't deliver the promised 13Mbps but was actually slower than the exisiting ADSL installation. I have been promised a contract termination & full refund after a number of weeks some toing & froing plus an engineer visiting & confirming what I had complained about on the day of installation.
https://community.bt.com/t5/BT-Infinity-Speed-Connection/New-Infinity-installation-is-slower-than-AD...
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Broadband nowhere near estimated speed

Hi.
My estimated download speed is approx 17Mb (14.5Mb-19Mb Estimated download speed range), however for the last 6 months I've only ever been getting less than 10Mb. Its nowhere near what it used to be.
ADSL status as follows:
ADSL Line Status
Connection Information
Line state:
Connected
Connection time:
1 days, 18:59:59
Downstream:
12.31 Mbps
Upstream:
1.129 Mbps
ADSL Settings
VPI/VCI:
0/38
Type:
PPPoA
Modulation:
G.992.5 Annex A
Latency type:
Fast
Noise margin (Down/Up):
13.4 dB / 6.6 dB
Line attenuation (Down/Up):
18.9 dB / 10.4 dB
Output power (Down/Up):
20.4 dBm / 11.2 dBm
FEC Events (Down/Up):
0 / 0
CRC Events (Down/Up):
45145 / 55
Loss of Framing (Local/Remote):
0 / 0
Loss of Signal (Local/Remote):
0 / 0
Loss of Power (Local/Remote):
0 / 0
HEC Events (Down/Up):
48640 / 15
Error Seconds (Local/Remote):
3223 / 18
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Download speedachieved during the test was - 11.09 Mbps
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2. Upstream Test: -provides background information.
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0.91 Mbps
0 Mbps
0.83 Mbps
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Upstream Rate IP profile on your line is - 0.83 Mbps
My line is usually quite stable although I've had to reboot my HH3 twice over the last week.
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Also my latency type used to be "Interleaved" and now it is "Fast".
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Thanks. I filled out the form, so will wait for the mods to contact me. For reference, here are the latest home hub stats:
ADSL Line Status
Connection Information
Line state:
Connected
Connection time:
10 days, 13:00:14
Downstream:
12.31 Mbps
Upstream:
1.129 Mbps
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VPI/VCI:
0/38
Type:
PPPoA
Modulation:
G.992.5 Annex A
Latency type:
Fast
Noise margin (Down/Up):
12.0 dB / 6.5 dB
Line attenuation (Down/Up):
18.9 dB / 10.4 dB
Output power (Down/Up):
20.4 dBm / 11.2 dBm
FEC Events (Down/Up):
0 / 0
CRC Events (Down/Up):
313130 / 116
Loss of Framing (Local/Remote):
0 / 0
Loss of Signal (Local/Remote):
0 / 0
Loss of Power (Local/Remote):
0 / 0
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326171 / 45
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Download Speed
881 Kbps
0 Kbps
2000 Kbps
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Additional Information:
Your DSL Connection Rate :1120 Kbps(DOWN-STREAM), 448 Kbps(UP-STREAM)
IP Profile for your line is - 2000 Kbps
Connection Information
Line state:
Connected
Connection time:
0 days, 04:39:52
Downstream:
1.094 Mbps
Upstream:
448 Kbps
ADSL Settings
VPI/VCI:
0/38
Type:
PPPoA
Modulation:
G.992.1 Annex A
Latency type:
Interleaved
Noise margin (Down/Up):
22.0 dB / 20.0 dB
Line attenuation (Down/Up):
50.0 dB / 31.0 dB
Output power (Down/Up):
15.8 dBm / 11.9 dBm
FEC Events (Down/Up):
312 / 23
CRC Events (Down/Up):
24 / 32
Loss of Framing (Local/Remote):
0 / 0
Loss of Signal (Local/Remote):
0 / 0
Loss of Power (Local/Remote):
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HEC Events (Down/Up):
20 / 18
Error Seconds (Local/Remote):
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Broadband Dropping Out and Connection Speed Decrea...

Sorry to be a pain but I am back here again.
Since the last issue with speed, connection drop out and noisey line which required an underground cable to be partly replaced, all has been fantastic and no problem to report. Many thanks to those who were involved in helping with getting that issue resolved.
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The frequency of drop out increased with a sort of pattern. Last week an example would be drop out at 11:50 am, again at 12:40 and once more at 1:30 pm. Each time the connection returned my computer icon for wifi would be a warning triangle. I clicked on the icon and would get a message 'limited connection'. The only way I could connect again would be to click the icon and select to disconnect and then connect, making sure a 'tick' was in the box for autoconnection. A bit more of a pain than before but usable. It got more of a problem over the next few days.
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All I can seem to find out is that the external connection is either the hub connecting to the server or vice versa? As for the codes? I have no idea at all.
I only ever resort to pressing 'restart' if I cannot connect to my hub. I have only pressed the 'reset' as a last resort as nothing else worked to allow me to reconnect.
Can anyone offer any help or best a permanent fix?

I connected to the test socket and used a wired connection for the speed test and hub stats.
The hub position and run of cables are the same as when the last engineer advised as the best set up.
Since my last post I have checked the event log and 'CWMP' has made at least two remote connections but the hub did not drop broadband connection. The broadband has been stable but just slower than usual, as you stated due to the drop outs/disconnections.
I guess a case of wait and monitor to see if the problem has resolved itself?
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Connection Information
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Connection time:
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Upstream:
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ADSL Settings
VPI/VCI:
0/38
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PPPoA
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G.992.5 Annex A
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Interleaved
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9.5 dB / 7.1 dB
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10.3 dB / 6.7 dB
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19.8 dBm / 12.4 dBm
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11 / 11
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0 / 0
Loss of Power (Local/Remote):
0 / 0
HEC Events (Down/Up):
377 / 48
Error Seconds (Local/Remote):
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