BT rural broadband capacity

I live in the village of Cheddington in rural Buckinghamshire. About 1km from the exchange which is at the other end of the village to me. After doing everything I can, like ensuring the internal wiring and connectors are OK, and disconnecting ring circuit etc I regularly and reliably sync at 7,600. My BRAS is 6,000. During the daytime, I am getting close to 6,000 on various speed tests. During evenings and weekends, the speed drops to between 1,000 and 2,000. My exchange is listed as 'uncontested.' The only presence in the exchange is BT wholesale. So changing to another provider may not help. Repeated complains to BT come to nothing. They always say there is nothing they can do, and no speeds are guaranteed.

My question: would changing to another broadband provider make any difference at all, or would I be wasting my time? BT gave me a reduction, so I pay £13.99. or is it the capacity provided by Openreach which is overloaded by everyone in the village using the Net at peak times?

Finally, is there anything else anyone can suggest I might do?

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Do you know if your router resyncs before the drop in speed? or does your profile remain at 6000?

Where did you check the uncontested, and did you mean uncongested?

If your answer to MHC is that you don't lose connection and get a lower speed, then it is congestion or traffic management at the BT Broadband end, not the BT Wholesale circuit that gets it to there.

In which case there are several ISPs where you don't get that. Depending on how much you download (and with a few ISPs upload as well), you can get much more consistent speeds at prices between £13 and £25pm, on monthly contract. If you can schedule your biggish downloads to run at night-time that helps a lot as well.

if your not loosing synch then you are simply suffering from the bt traffic management sytem.

if you run speedtester.bt.com at the slow periods you may get the opportunity to re-run it with a BT test user address which is not ISP specific, this would show up any differences that are due to the ISP as opposed to the exchange.

Asking other people on different ISPs might help, a more business orientated one might do a lot better at night if it is an ISP issue.