Increased download speed = increased ping

Hi,
After some wrestling of biblical proportions with BT Technical and having had 5 engineers out since January a faulty section of cable was replaced last week. This has led to three changes in our broadband service, two good, one very bad.
1. The download speed increased from around 0.98 mb/s to 2.10 mb/s - Great.
2. Incoming phone calls no longer caused the broadband connection to reset - Great.
3. The ping has increased from a steady 48ms to 96ms - Bad.
For info I have a Home Hub 3 with Option 3 package and the above numbers came from www.speedtest.net. This issue is of particular annoyance with XBox-Live which is now virtually unusable following the increase in ping. The XBox is set up for port forwarding and in the DMZ and is connected to the hub through an official wireless adaptor.
Any assistance with this would be much appreciated.
Thanks
Chris

 I see you are still online while you are waiting try the command prompt ping-The easiest way to check ping is to open the Command Prompt on the PC and type "ping (ip Address or Website)". Example:
ping www.google.com
I take it your PC is wired!
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