Training Period

Just been upgrade from my old 1mb line to a 8mb max service, now I am aware of the \10 day BT training period, however my speed has dropped from 3mb this afternoon to little better than a 56k connection now is this a normal part of the training period?

Connection down 4000/up 448
Line Attenuation down 55db / up 15.5db
Noise Margin down 6db / up 22db

can anyone see whats wrong that might be causing this crappy speed. I did ring Freeola and the impression that I got was that this was not a normal part of the training period and that I should wait until monday to see if it settles which to be honest sounded like a fob off.

http://www.thinkbroadband.com/faq/sections/radsl.html#225
"visit www.speedtester.bt.com and this will test the download speed and also give you your current IP profile value. A warning about the tester site, it does not always work if lots of other people are using it."

Done that, my line synchs at 3.5mb

what about the IP profile?

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my speed has dropped from 3mb this afternoon to little better than a 56k connection

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Speed doing what? This sounds like ISP throttling to me. Some ISPs throttle P2P traffic to this sort of speed.

Test1 comprises of Best Effort Test: -provides background information.
IP profile for your line is - 152 kbps
DSL connection rate: 448 kbps(UP-STREAM) 4000 kbps(DOWN-STREAM)
Actual IP throughput achieved during the test was - 117 kbps

im not doing any p2p this is normal surfing and speed tests

IP profile for your line is - 152 kbps
BT wholesale have limited your connection speed, usually because of disconnects/low sync events. If your line rate remains stable it should rise after 3 days or so.

does that 3 days include weekends?

That looks like somewhere you had a really bad sync. If will take 3 days synced at 4000 which it now is before it resets the profile to 3.5Mb. Switching off and on if necessary should not upset things, as long as you don't sync below 3424. However, the BT end could cause re-syncs both up and down while it searches for your highest stable sync.

See the profile setting table here