Is it BT Yahoo / Total Broadband / Option 3 / or d...

Hopefully someone here can help.
We signed up with BT Openworld back in 2003 which subsequently morphed into BT Yahoo. Since then the service has continued without much issue. (Just a loss of service because BT randomly disconnected us which then took weeks to resolve; plus paying £28+ a month for a 2Mb line - but other than that, not much issue).
Other than these few problems that is:
a) we have never seen a bill for this service. Trying to click view bills via the BT Yahoo page doesn't work.
b) in the BT Yahoo account page it says we are on BT Total Broadband Option 3. However, when you go to My BT on BT.com and look at our account (the account has the phone bill showing) we can't see any Broadband listed. In fact, they suggest signing up.....
c) trying to apply for an Accelerator (old iplate), when typing in our phone number and postcode, it confidently states that we don't have BT Broadband. Ironically, I'm using BT broadband to access the page...
d) back in October last year I received an email on the BTinternet.com email address telling me the great news that my BT Yahoo account was being moved to BT Total Broadband and that I would be receiving an email when this was done, confirmation of my account number, speeds of up to 20Mb, something to tell me how to view a bill for the first time in 8 years, etc. Nothing has ever been received. We have never received a new home hub for example. No speed increase. No account number, nothing.
Here's the link telling us what we should have won: http://bt.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/14401/c/761/?s_cid=con_FURL_help/newaccount
e) trying to follow this up with anyone has always been met with "What is your account number"? It seems hard for them to understand that without a bill or any communication with BT, I don't have an account number and I can't find one anywhere else. I have of course offered to make one up.
f) the line speed sits resolutely at 2Mb. It doesn't matter what router is used, whether the router is plugged into the master socket, whether I tell all my neighbours to have an internet free day, etc.
We can't help but assume our account has been left on an old BT Yahoo set up, with 2Mb maximum and nothing has been done to bring our account to Total Broadband, sort the speed out, merge our accounts with our normal BT bill and allow us to look at a rarely-spotted invoice. Getting my hands on a BT Accelerator would be great too.
Can anyone help here...?
Jeremy.

Hi, I've been browsing the forums for general interest and have a somewhat related enquiry to the above queries.
I have been with BT Yahoo Broadband (and whatever came before that) for some years. Last year I had an email to say that (quote):
"Good news. We’re sprucing up some of our systems over the next few months, replacing BT Yahoo! Broadband with BT Total Broadband. We’ll need to give you a new account number but you’ll pay the same and get a better service and more features for your money..." (followed by the 'features' of Total Broadband Option 3).
A few days ago I had an email to say (quote)
"Remember our email about moving you to BT Total Broadband and changing your account number? You’re now on BT Total Broadband and your new account number is GB100XXXXX."
One good thing - for the first time I have an account number that I can quote!
My query is: do my methods of payment stay the same? I am debited every month from my credit card for broadband as the owner of the BT line itself is not me but my partner, and therefore a separate phone account. So far, I have not seen a charge against my credit card this month, and it would have been due now.
I did try and ring one of the helplines today, but sadly the competence of the staff in India has not improved since my last problem with billing (updating credit card details) last December. They were completely clueless, although very polite.
Incidentally the BT Broadband postcode checker suggests that I'd be able to get 7.0 - 8.0MB speed, but mine remains at 2MB, which is what I have had for a long time.  I don't for one minute doubt thatI wouldn't get the maximum, but I'd have thought I'd be getting a little better than the 1.8 MB download I currently average....if indeed I have been transferred over as the emails have suggested?

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