New user - Guess what, I have speed questions!

So, Inifinity went in yesterday as planned. All good there.
Initially the engineer showed me that the line was rated at 37 meg and upload of around 10 meg, which is all good.
However, running tests on Speedtest.net over the wireless show that I'm getting around 2meg down and 8meg up. The up is of course good, but the 2meg down seems a bit, ropey! Continued tests throughout the day on wired and wireless showed this to be consistent.
One thing the engineer told me to do was: "Just before you go to bed, shut down the router and the modem and then repower them" I thought this made sense as he should know what he's talking about. So I did this thinking it would resolve my issues. However, having read through the forums last night, after I powered off the kit, it seems that could have been a mistake.
So testing this morning, on speedtest.net it shows at 12meg down and 7meg up over a wired connection and the same again over a wireless connection.
However, when I use BT Speedtest I get the following:
> Download speedachieved during the test was - 32657 Kbps
For your connection, the acceptable range of speedsis 12000-37132 Kbps .
Additional Information:
IP Profile for your line is -37132 Kbps
2. Upstream Test: -provides background information.
Upload Speed
8140 Kbps
0 Kbps
10000 Kbps
Max Achievable Speed
>Upload speed achieved during the test was - 8140 Kbps
Additional Information:
Upstream Rate IP profile on your line is - 10000 Kbps
When you compare this to a real world test (Download the lastest version of Ubuntu for example) I get just 300k download speed.
So my questions are as follows!
- Why does BT speed test rate that much higher than anything else?
- What should I believe in terms of speed?
- Why are my actual downloads so much slower than they were with Be Internet which was a copper based service
- Has turning my modem off caused an issue?

That router is a cable router, it doesn't have a modem built in. The downloads are from HTTP and FTP, I'm testing using major sites like Microsoft, Apple, Ubuntu and various other sites where I've seen big speeds from before.
These are the tests I've done, all from a wired connection direct to the Home Hub
http://www.broadbandspeedchecker.co.uk/ gives me results of 7.3 down and 7.0 up
http://www.mybroadbandspeed.co.uk/ gave 7.5 down and 8 up
http://www.thinkbroadband.com gave 1.5 down!! and 6.5 up
http://www.speedtest.bbmax.co.uk/ gave 6.5 down and 7.8 up
http://www.speedtest.net/ gave 5.9 down and 8.10 up
Meanwhile BT.speedtest gave the following:
1. Best Effort Test: -provides background information.
Download Speed
29690 Kbps
0 Kbps
37132 Kbps
Max Achievable Speed
> Download speedachieved during the test was - 29690 Kbps
For your connection, the acceptable range of speedsis 12000-37132 Kbps .
Additional Information:
IP Profile for your line is -37132 Kbps
2. Upstream Test: -provides background information.
Upload Speed
8153 Kbps
0 Kbps
10000 Kbps
Max Achievable Speed
>Upload speed achieved during the test was - 8153 Kbps
Additional Information:
Upstream Rate IP profile on your line is - 10000 Kbps
So, to me there seems to be something odd. All the other tests are in the same sort of ball park, which would tally with the 500k downloads I'm seeing from the 'real world' tests I've been running.

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