Ive never seen anything measured in bits

the speedtesters are in bits ! so the 0.2M was 200 kbits/s

each one of them is a current, or recent, connection to/from your PC to elsewhere on the internet. You have rather a lot !

Your network connection was showing a persistent level of traffic before your download.

I suggest you reboot and check netstat and traffic straight after. Then reboot into Safe Mode by hitting F8 as it starts up and repeat. I think you're hosting something using your bandwidth, consciously or otherwise.

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<a href="http://s91.photobucket.com/albums/k303/stan201/?action=view&amp;current=netstat.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i91.photobucket.com/albums/k303/stan201/netstat.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>

this is the network status, i admit, it means nothing to me.

Dunno how you're posting the link, but it's just the URL you need, like this : http://i91.photobucket.com/albums/k303/stan201/netst...

i think i got confused but your stats look right to me
your line profile is 750kbits
you can download at 70KBytes
which is correct
speedtests run in Kb small "b" is bits big "B" is bytes
what i would do is ask BT to move you onto a faster profile is you line can take it....
looks like your limitied to a 1Mb profile or a 1000Kb profile

Thanks guys, sorry for the late reply, so it sounds like we were getting quicker than we were paying for.
I didn't think such speeds were actually classed as broadband?
Anyway thanks for your help, going to look into some different ISP's as soon as.
Josh

It may still be useful to post your router stats (i.e. attenuations, SNR margins, sync rates). See http://www.dslzoneuk.net/adsl_line_stats.php or http://kitz.co.uk/adsl/frogstats.php for methods.