Shocking speeds since I signed up

Question

Hi
Can anyone help shed some light on my speed issues for me please??
When i signed up to BT I was quoted speeds of 2.5 - 6.5Meg.
When i was connected I was recieving speeds of around 0.4Meg from Talk Talk. when i changed over to BT I got the exact same 0.4Meg.
I called to complain about my speed and was then told I had to wait 10days before anyone would look into my speed issues - This annoyed me as it had not been mentioned at any time before I was connected.
After 10 days with speeds ranging from 0.02 to 0.6meg I contacted BT again to be told I needed a reset and that there was a line fault and to wait 10 more days
So 20 days in and still running at 0.4 meg, then after another age on the phone to BT, more resets and testing of things I had by this time done countless times at BT's request, I have to wait 2 weeks for an engineer to attend my house. (this was actually booked without any discussion or planning with me...)
So the engineer attends, goes to the cab for several hours and returns saying he has sorted various things there but the best incommer at the cab is 5.7meg.
He installs a new master socket into the house, removes the only other unused socket from the house, re makes the connection from the telegraph pole to my house and we test and get 2.3Meg... Good but not the promised speed at the time of sign up.
The enigheer says there are a very high number of errors on the line according to his test equipment, that is the best speed he can achieve and that my profile should be reset.
The next day, another open reach van arrives 3 dorrs up the road, my speed is already down to 2meg before it dropps out altogether for an hour or so, returning back at 0.2 meg.
I call to report this and the whole process starts again and im told i require a profile reset! Now i have been with BT for 6 weeks and this is at least the 5th time i have been reset.
I now have a woman calling me every few days to follow up on my issue, and we go through the process of changing the WiFi channel and the speed gets up to 1.3 - 1.5Meg and im asked if i am happy with this, I answer no as I was sold 2.5 meg Min and this has still not been achieved, how long do i have to keep resetting and changing WiFi channels before this works?????
Some information:
I have one socket in the house, I have afilter installed into this (tested with many filters now)
I have a 6 week old home hub 3
Speeds i am currently running at are around 0.2 - 0.4 meg then around 1.4 - 1.6 meg after changing WiFi channels.
WiFi speeds and wired speeds are the same at the same times within reason.
My phone line is clear but my speed is shocking.
I have missed out a lot of what has gone on with hours upon hours on the phone to BT, no call backs etc but overall i have to say the level of service i have recieved from BT has been hurrendous. after 6 weeks to be not even close to the speeds promised except for around 6 hours is not acceptable.
Has anyone got any ideas that may help at all as i am at the point of pulling my contract from BT and taking my custom elsewhere.
Thanks
Alex

Answer 1

hi dfenceman,
The speed estimation was from kitz.co.uk which said this:
Estimation of your maximum rate adaptive adsl speed
Downstream
Attenuation
 57 dB
Approx
Line Length
 4.1km
dslMAX (20CN)
3200 kbps
IP Profile
2500 kbps
BT 21CN WBC
& adsl2+
3488 kbps
IP Profile
 3076 kbps
adsl2+ (LLU)
3488 kbps
Throughput
3087 kbps
This is only an estimate and can vary from line to line due to many factors like line material, line age, line quality, ect...
Strange how lines can actually vary alot in speed :L
CheatedCustomer might be worth trying the test socket.
cheers,
James
I'm no expert, so please correct me if I'm wrong