Why do BT keep slowing down my broadband?

I am currently getting 232kbps download speed! For £15.99 a month! The engineer who came the last time this happened said that the exchange monitor and alter your profile constantly. Well they've done it again. This is really taking the micky. I had to sign up with BT when I moved here and also sign up for 18 months. It is a total rip off. I was promised a call at 8.30 this morning and it is now 9.30.
How about I monitor BT's performance and adjust my payments accordingly?
THere is nothing wrong with my equipment and my line is capable of 3.2mb.
WHY do BT do this? Do they only do it to people who are tied into long contracts and cant do anything about it?

Hi thanks for your response.
The BT engineer who last came reset our password so I had to reset the hub. We do not switch the thing off ever, and he told us not to.
Here are the settings:
Line state
Connected
Connection time
0 days, 0:58:02
Downstream
1,472 Kbps
Upstream
448 Kbps
ADSL settings
VPI/VCI
0/38
Type
PPPoA
Modulation
ITU-T G.992.1
Latency type
Interleaved
Noise margin (Down/Up)
12.3 dB / 15.0 dB
Line attenuation (Down/Up)
57.0 dB / 31.5 dB
Output power (Down/Up)
17.4 dBm / 11.9 dBm
Loss of Framing (Local)
0
Loss of Signal (Local)
9
Loss of Power (Local)
0
FEC Errors (Down/Up)
45288 / 0
CRC Errors (Down/Up)
74 / 2147480000
HEC Errors (Down/Up)
nil / 0
Error Seconds (Local)
125

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The OP does not have a modem router so this advice doesn't apply.

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I notice when I'm editing in a project in Premiere Pro CC, the auto save or even if I just save, the save slows down over time. You can slowly see the save bar going slower and slower over time. Even if I don't add any new media or import different files the save still goes a lot slower overtime. Sometimes the save bar will hang at a certain point for 20 secs or so and then continue. I understand if I add more media, files, pics, music etc... the save will take longer. But why does it do this if I'm just editing with some effects? Is it something to do with the cache folder getting too large or that I have too many auto saves? Should I clean out these folders? Also if it hangs at one spot for 10 secs or so is it because there is a corrupt file somewhere?
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My specs: Mac Pro 2009
Processor 2 x 2.26 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon
Memory 32 GB 1066 MHz DDR3 ECC
Graphics NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 2048 MB
Startup disk SSD

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Lifetime Windows user recently switched to Mac. I plugged in a USB mouse and as I get close to whatever I am looking to click on and naturally slow down, the cursor slows down exponentially. I read something about this being how macs are, but want to verify that and see what can be done about turning that off if it is the case. It is just awful in my opinion.

Trey B wrote:
So you can minimize LabVIEW 8.5 and the speed returns to normal? What operating system are you using?
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Marc A wrote:
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