Broadband almost going backwards

I have been a customer with bt since the 8th August so not long at all. I had major problems with my account right from the word go and was reduced to tears until after a total of around six hours on the phone trying to get help, one person sorted my problem within minutes.
I have noticed that my connection keeps dropping out in the past few days and my speeds have seemed slow. Tonight, my speed has virtually ground to a halt and alot of sites will not load as it's taking so long.
I ran four speed tests using speediest.net app on my iPad and the maximum speed is about 0.18mbps. I am unable to do the bt speediest as the page just won't load, the connection just grinds to a halt.
I really don't know if I can face phoning bt again as last time I was reduced to tears big time. I don't know what to do. I really would like to cancel my service with them as it's been so problematic and I cannot cope with their call centres.
I'm going to try and get through to their head office tomorrow to see if I can get some agreement to terminate because I can't use the Internet properly at all.
Sorry for the rant, am just extremely fed up with such poor service from such a big company.
Alison
From Alison, sent from my iPad 2

The reason for your disconnects is your Noise margin. Its very low at 3dB. This could be because it is the evening when the Noise Margin drops due to the amount of people online.. Do you know whether it is higher or not during the day?
Also can you tell me which type of master socket you have? and whether you're connected at it?
Edit as jcampy has advised the internal wiring, as standard, the bell wire should be taken out of any master or extension socket as this can reduce the amount of interference your broadband can pick up and sometimes fixes the problem, see how to remove it here http://bit.ly/4LEKJg
Also try a tidy up of your cable as per this users (RogerB) post : http://community.bt.com/t5/BB-Speed-Connection-Issues/Poor-Broadband-speed/m-p/14217
To rule out internal wiring if you have the first or second picture of the sockets then you need to unscrew the faceplate and plug into the test socket as shown on this diagram
Regards Edd
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