Flashing Orange Broadband light for days at a time...

Hi Guys,
Been having a problem with broadband connection for past couple of months.Seems to be fine for a few days and then orange light starts flashing on hub.Usually turns blue again within a couple of hours but sometimes is out for several days.I have a very long 9km phoneline and the speed is only 0.5Mb at best but it has been consistent for 4 years.I'm worried that maybe the line has deteriorated a little more and thats the reason for the drop outs. The hub is currently connected in the test socket with all upstairs phone extensions disconnected.I've have 2 hubs and have tried both with different filters and get the same problem so i think it must be a line issue.Any help and advice would be appreciated.
Currently writing this via a mobile broadband connection because the hub as been out for 2 days.

The issue for me isn't the speed although it is snail speed by todays standards.The range of speeds i usually get is between 0.25 and 0.5 Mbps,it's always faster in cooler weather in the winter and seems to slow during periods of hot weather.Maybe the line expands a little when it's warmer,i'm not sure.The 288Kbps is normal for my connection.I've noticed that sometimes just before the connection drops,the downstream noise margin drops to around 1db which then drops out the connection.
It's been connected for around 4 hours now and stats seem pretty stable.
ADSL Line Status
Connection information
Line state:
Connected
Connection time:
0 day, 03:57:41
Downstream:
288 Kbps
Upstream:
352 Kbps
  ADSL settings
VPI/VCI:
0/38
Type:
PPPoA
Modulation:
G.992.1 Annex A
Latency type:
Interleaved
Noise margin (Down/Up):
6.8 dB / 6.0 dB
Line attenuation (Down/Up):
63.5 dB / 31.5 dB
Output power (Down/Up):
13.9 dBm / 12.3 dBm
FEC Events (Down/Up):
2950 / 53
CRC Events (Down/Up):
2 / 2
Loss of Framing (Local/Remote):
0 / 0
Loss of Signal (Local/Remote):
0 / 0
Loss of Power (Local/Remote):
0 / 0
Loss of Link (Remote):
0
HEC Errors (Down/Up):
3 / 1
Error Seconds (Local/Remote):
0 / 0

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