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I recently had a fault with my line last week i reported it and they said yes there is a fault and your broadband would be back up with 3 hours, well it came back up but i never had any call back or to advise it was back, i noticed from that point the download speeds were down to 256k normally 700k, i logged into my bt account and saw the fault was still open so i assumed its being dealt with, when i checked this morning the fault has been closed and i have had no contact from bt its fixed, the speeds have gone down to 90k and have been like this since yesterday. im running a netgear dg834g wirless router and its been as solid as anything, when i log into the router it tells me connection speed is now 992kbps which is a very slow connection indeed, what i wanted to know is maybe i gotta wait 24hrs for the line to settle and the speeds to come back? but since reading in here theres tons of people the same as me so there is def a pattern to the issues, everytime i see an openreach van down my road does my broadband start playing up, what can you advise me to do here?
i ran btspeedster and it just sits there doesnt report back.

Port
Status
TxPkts
RxPkts
Collisions
Tx B/s
Rx B/s
Up Time
WAN
PPPoA
81669
107320
0
1507
41240
00:59:44
LAN
10M/100M
108839
84145
0
39889
1993
01:02:45
WLAN
11M/54M
0
0
0
0
0
01:02:35
ADSL Link
Downstream
Upstream
Connection Speed
1344 kbps
448 kbps
Line Attenuation
40 db
12.5 db
Noise Margin
4 db
8 db

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