I was referring to systems in general as you had made a comparison to MS Windows.

I'm surprised Ofcom and/or BT don't ask you to take over . They clearly have things sooo wrong.

I also once objected to having my phone line made into a party line. I didn't get anywhere with that one either!

I agree totally - and the only person suffering here is the customers - ie us - me as the original poster here who has a banded profile with no line fault (confirmed by a GEA report).

BT whether it's Openreach or BT wholesale need to get their act together. As has been said DLM is far to quick to reduce speed if it perceives a fault, but incredibly slow to raise and restrictions if a fault is cleared. This should be addressed ASAP.

This has been stuck on a 30 Mb/s banded profile for about 4 months so far.

The GEA report states no line fault and recommends next action is for special faults to remove banding.

So why isn't that being done? It sounds like ISP ineffectiveness.

In my case I was 'assured' by the PN man that they were unable to affect the setting BT may have applied to the line (having confirmed my PN setting was 55/10) and had to wait until/if 'Big Daddy'got his fat backside in gear. Something 'moved'.

As I said, I am now 'down' (and steady) at around 50 which is probably right for a sync of 54999.

Still stuck on a banded 34999 here for around 9 months. Error rates low, line stable for 50+ days. No sign of it going of it's own accord. SNR about 7.5.

I think I'll wait until openreach go with the 3/4/5 SNRm change, and/or virgin becomes active in my street and I jump ship.