Apple Airport Extreme drops PPPoE connection on BT...

Hi folks; looking some advice here:
I'm fairly Apple centric in the house, and have an Apple Extreme Base Station (Dual Band) i.e. the current gen one.
BT Infinity became available in my area in December and I jumped on it, especially when after viewing posts on these forums which said the AE worked as the router in PPPoE mode. After engineer installation I put on the AE and configured as forum advice. Started working no problems. Happy days.... But after 48 hours or so the connection to the Internet dropped and I restarted the VDSL modem (I thought that was the issue at the time). Since then, every 48 hours or so the internet connection will stop. Its not a problem with the connection to the router, I've tried it wired and wireless, basically the internet connection stops working. I'm assuming its the AE as if I put the HomeHub back on I get stable connections with no issues for days on end. Other weird thing is that if I check my external IP address, it will change from 86.x.x.x to 109.x.x.x on the AE regularly throughout the day while on the HH its stays at one or the other for days on end. So I think the AE is dropping the connection and trying to get an address from BT but its failing and thats causing a problem. When its rebooted, Internet is back on as soon as its back up. AE shows no problems in its logs and LED doesn't indicate any issues. I've went from 7.5.1 firmware to 7.5.2 but problem still exists.
Does anyone else have this issue and if so how did you resolve it (if you did). Is my AE flaky? It worked without any problems when I was on ADSL and it was in bridge mode. Any advice appreciated.

I'm not familiar with Apple products but as your IP address keeps changing then, as you believe, it certainly points to the AE resynching all the time. Can you get any stats from it that might help? I'm sure you won't get stats from the BT VDSL modem, it just does not seem to be possible, unfortunately. But who knows, whatever stats you can get might just let one of the experts on this forum give you some idea what is wrong.  Failing this (or in addition) you might check if you have begun to get exessive noise on your phone line.
I understand that if you dial 17070 and use option 2 you will be able to listen to any line noise that might be present. If there is a lot of noise then this could explain the regular re-synching. BTW this line noise test is best done from the master socket with a standard non-digital phone.
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