Ha, good point.

Guys. I'm getting a lot of feedback but the question remains. Whats going on.
Today I looked at my Router settings and to my surprise I see ADSL PPPoA Down Data Rate 2324 Noise 10 Attenuation 54 Up Data Rate 864 Noise 12 Attenuation 29.
Now this appears to fit with the speed tester results of Down 2.0ish Mbps Up 0.7Mbps.
I at your TBB meter but since I am a Mac OSX guy I make the assumption it is only Win. As I stated in my original post my NetBarrier...this appears to do exactly what your TBB does...shows net traffic by type / port in real time as graph and it is this that shows the capped 250kbps rate which appears in my limited understanding to be the true speed.
My usage to the best of my knowledge is not capped (Pipex now TalkTalk) and even if this was the case why would the speed testers be reporting the higher speeds. They too would be throttled.
As I read more about this on different sites it appears that I am not the only one who has come across the fact that something odd is going on. It still smells like the "Up to" confusion with comments being made like "ISP's give priority to Speed Test sites" etc.
Can I post an image on this site?
I'm still totally at a loss at what is going on.
and just to finish what is a Market 1 exchange please?
Stuart

Do you have a test socket within your BT master socket? If you do could you get the router stats from there? It may rule in or out your internal wiring as a problem.

Have you removed the ring wire?

If you don't have a test socket try getting the stats with all your other telephone equipment, sky boxes, etc. disconnected.

See http://www.dslzoneuk.net/socket.php?type=html

Will carry out your suggestion later.
Only the router and one telephone base station connected but I agree there is relatively long internal wiring since the router is NOT connected direct to the BT box (convenience plus the fact that the TV requires a hardwired ethernet connection since it does not accept WiFi connectivity). The BT socket does not have a test socket.
Ring circuit has not been disconnected, or whatever, since I still use this landline for my main telephone. I'm not a mobile fiend.
Will report back later.,
Thanks for taking the time to try to assist me.
Stuart

The ring wire has been redundant for years. You don't need it with modern phones which generate their own ring tone.

See http://www.thinkbroadband.com/faq/sections/radsl.htm...

Pull it out and wrap insulating tape around the end.

FTTC IP Profile is an immediate update, not the long wait some had on the old ADSL/ADSL2+ products

The cap may be the IP PROFILE which I posted a link to an explanation of.
You can find what this cap is by visiting www.speedtester.bt.com

This should improve if you line holds the current 2324 Kbps for long enough and then see you getting figures of 2 Mbps from speedtesters.

IMPORTANT
Speedtesters also vary in how they work, ours takes a simple average result for the time taken to download the data, What you will see is this

1. Small burst of download
2. Small burst of upload
3. Measured download, amount calculated from 1
4. Same as 3 but for upload

If you use the flash based tester you also get graphs which you can compare with the NetBarrier

The ookla (speedtest.net and many others) based testers, take a number of 30 samples, discard a number of the slowest and highest, and then pick the highest sample from the remaining. Thus this will tend to give a higher result than a pure average.