Speed has dropped from initially promised speed

Question

Hi Guys n Gals.
I recently renewed my broadband contract with BT after a year of 3Mb/s D/L speed and 376Kbp/s U/L.
I was looking at the BT speedtester in September/October when it stated that i should receive a minimum of 5Mb/s and a maximum of 8Mb/s but should expect 6Mb/s. I rang to verify this with the sales dept. and all was hunky dory......for 2 months.
My exchange (Toddington) had recently had 21CN work completed and all looked as though my speed had in effect doubled. Well it had! WOW! it was brilliant.
I then started to have a degradation in service which has seen my downspeed drop to old levels and im totally disappointed now.
I have called BT's "tech support" in India and have become bitterly sore from their basic patronising, turn it off and on again approach. When i mentioned that i had carried out BT's own speedtest and been given the aforementioned figures, i was told that i must be mistaken and that my line only has capacity to sustain 6Mb/s yet i have downloaded files at far above that number/speed. I was being told i had not seen what i know i saw. Here are my line stats for your perusal:
I am in the test socket and connected via G/Bit LAN card to G/Bit port on HH3.
These stats were taken from the router directly after the line test so there was obviously a reset of the router in said test.
Is there anyway i can reobtain the exact speedtest i was sold the product on as i now wish to terminate my contract totally. I will NOT be treated like this as a customer. I have been on the phone to tech support again this evening and they reckon they have found a line fault.......Why can they have not done this before totally insulting my intelligence like they have.
I wish for two or three things to happen now. Location of the fault, apologise directly to me from a UK BT rep and finally cut me loose so i dont have to suffer any more foolish service any longer than is exactly necessary.
Best Regards

Answer 1

welcome to the forum
if there is a fault and it gets fixed then great and maybe your connection speed will improve. you never get a promised speed but an estimated speed but that is very much dependent on your line quality and home connection.
if you want some assistance from the forum members then please can you post the adsl stats from your router may need to 'show detail' to get all stats (if hub enter 192.168.1.254 in your browser and navigate to adsl or use a-z, if netgear enter 192.168.0.1) and run btspeedtester (MAC users may have problems) http://speedtester.bt.com or http://bt.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/9354/c/346,4740,5520 and post the results .
are you connected directly to the NTE5 master or test socket or to somewhere else? Is the master the only phone socket in your home?
Have you tried the quiet line test? - dial 17070 option 2 - should hear nothing - best done with a corded phone. if cordless phone you may hear a 'dull hum' which is normal
Someone may then be able to offer help/assistance/suggestions to your problem
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