Connectivity Issues and Slow Speeds Since Service Start

Question

Hi there. I changed ISPs on 01/06/2015 from Sky to EE. Ever since the broadband service has changed over to EE, from day one, the connection has been unstable. We were getting constant disconnects, usually at pretty set times of day, but they could also be rather random too. The disconnects were most often happening at around 11am, and then from 11pm until 2am. Which was all quite odd. I've been in touch with EE home broadband customer support who have run multiple line tests, sent out two separate BT engineers and an EE engineer, all who have found no fault with the wiring and are unable to identify any faults on the lines, even though when I call, I'm more often told that as a result of line tests they've found faults on the line. This conflicting information is rather frustrating. Would also like to add that the router is plugged into the test socket and that's made no difference. For the past couple of days we've only had an occasional disconnect, so it is better in that regard, but in its place the broadband speeds have been noticeably slower. Upon running speed tests via browser, I'm getting information like: Download speedachieved during the test was - 9.19 Mbps
 For your connection, the acceptable range of speeds is 4 Mbps-21 Mbps.
 IP Profile for your line is - 11.79 Mbps Upload speed achieved during the test was - 0.69Mbps
 Additional Information:
 Upstream Rate IP profile on your line is - 0.83 Mbps  Which all seems fine. However, browser pages are extremely slow to load if they load at all, PSN shareplay won't connect as 'the connection is too slow', videos take an age to buffer, online gaming is hit and miss whether I can actually connect to the server or not. I'm connected to this exchange: https://www.samknows.com/broadband/exchange/WSLAK And the details for my router are as follows: STATUS   Configured CurrentLine Status -- UPLink Type -- Interleaved PathOperation Mode Automatic G.992.5 (ADSL2+) DATA RATE INFORMATIONUpstream 1022 (Kbps)Downstream 13742 (Kbps) DEFECT/FAILURE INDICATIONOperation Data Upstream DownstreamNoise Margin 4.9 (dB) 6.0 (dB)Line Attenuation 16.8 (dB) 31.5 (dB)
Indicator Name Near End Indicator Far End IndicatorOutput Power 12.2 (dBm) 20.8 (dBm)Fast Path FEC Correction -- --Interleaved Path FEC Correction 110407 7Fast Path CRC Error -- --Interleaved Path CRC Error 0 61Loss Of Signal Defect 4 0Fast Path HEC Error STR -- --Interleaved Path HEC Error 24 47Error Seconds 7635 2783 STATISTICSReceived Data 110191 (Kbits)Transmitted Data 69634 (Kbits)  Any suggestions or even explanations would be appreciated. I'm starting to regret having ever changed ISP. We had no issues whatsoever before June 1st.

Answer 1

Time Connected10:34:37 STATUS  Configured Current Line Status --UP Link Type --Interleaved Path Operation Mode Automatic G.992.5 (ADSL2+) DATA RATE INFORMATIONUpstream 944 (Kbps) Downstream 13678 (Kbps) DEFECT/FAILURE INDICATIONOperation Data Upstream Downstream Noise Margin 5.6 (dB) 5.4 (dB)Line Attenuation 16.8 (dB) 31.5 (dB)
Indicator Name Near End Indicator Far End IndicatorOutput Power 12.2 (dBm) 20.8 (dBm)Fast Path FEC Correction -- --Interleaved Path FEC Correction 2683346 85Fast Path CRC Error -- --Interleaved Path CRC Error 0 30508Loss Of Signal Defect 2 0Fast Path HEC Error STR -- --Interleaved Path HEC Error 398 32149Error Seconds 1266 1282 STATISTICSReceived Data 25610979 (Kbits) Transmitted Data 4037141 (Kbits) I've gone ahead and posted yet more up to date stats. Again, looking at the time connected time, it relates back to the last disconnect which was in the afternoon. Again, the router hasn't been manually reset, restarted, etc. The connection dropped out (the adsl light on the router blinked out of existence and took several minutes to start flashing back on again, before going a solid green, as per usual), and was left to its own convenience to return. Note: Just as I pressed the post button, we lost connection again, but I'll stick with the stats I've already pasted here.