Broadband regularly dropping out

Question

I am losing the will to live !!! BT technical support in India is apalling (and please do not misinterpret this, I have nothing against India or Indian people). They seem to work to a set script, which is repeated at every level of support, and if you don't fit into the scenario, difficult to get the problem solved :-(
For 2 or 3 weeks now, my broadband has been dropping out regularly. After numerous phone calls, an Outreach engineer checked the line from the pole to the exchange and everything looked good. He then came into the house and checked from the main socket back to the exchange, and again everything looked good, though the fault is intermittent so would test good most of the time.
The lastest advice was to remove the faceplate from the main socket, and plug my Homehub directly into the test socket behind the faceplate thus "eliminating any problems from extension cabling within the house".....there is no extension cabling within the house, and there is nothing connected to the faceplate, but they keep insisting the problem could be there. All wass fine with not a single dropout experienced when connected to the test socket as far as I know.
I was then asked to replace the faceplate and plug the hub back into that....................and in the last 24 hours i have had at least 3 dropouts, one within an hour of reconnection whilst watching BT Sport, then a couple of times this morning.
I hardly think this is a coincidence, and would therefore assume there is a problem with the main socket faceplate, but BT technical support does not see it this way, and prefers me to remove it again and plug back into the trest socket, and monitor some more................
Has anyone else seen anything similar ? Does anyone have a phone number to a technical group here in UK I can speak to and get this resolved once and for all ? 
When is BT management going to listen to customers and realize that the waiting time on the telephone is far too long, and so frustrating on how much long the wait will be, or what position in the queue you are.

Answer 1

sounds like a faulty faceplate - either buy a new one or just connect to test socket and as no extensions just leave off the bottom half of the master socket
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