I picked this bit out separately...

In reply to a post by mikejp:

WWW - thank you for bringing some long overdue sanity and knowledge into this forum.

I think almost every post has given some good advice in the context of the time they were written. Some have obviously been overtaken by subsequent disclosures, but none of them were particularly wrong at the time.

In most cases, threads on here don't get started with a perfect set of data to describe the problem, and aren't diagnosed in one answer. It takes a lot of work threading through the half-answers to figure things out .. so needs a little patience.

I suggest that you use the TBB Test and/or one of the others that graphs the "speeds" achieved during those relatively brief periods, both within the individual tests and across the two.

I have just done two TBB tests in quick succession-

http://www.thinkbroadband.com/speedtest/results.html...

http://www.thinkbroadband.com/speedtest/results.html...

To put a closure on this thread?

Following a 'tortuous' and delayed move to 55/10, plus some work by OR EVENTUALLY on my line, I now have a sync of 54+ and a measured download in the 50's, so it did work.