Ah, hadn't noticed that bit, makes you wonder, doesn't it ?

Yes, I'm with Orange. Been through their technical support team who haven't been too helpful, they did try though bless them. Still leaves me with a mostly unusable service though.

I did a test using the BT Speed Test again, these are the results:

Download speedachieved during the test was - 673 Kbps
For your connection, the acceptable range of speeds is 600-7150 Kbps.
Additional Information:
Your DSL Connection Rate :7648 Kbps(DOWN-STREAM), 448 Kbps(UP-STREAM)
IP Profile for your line is - 6000 Kbps

Not sure I agree with the acceptable range of speed being 600-7150Kbps. Surely there is a zero missing (6000-7150Kbps).

Thanks to @panda and @XRaySpeX for clearing up the "missing" decimal point.

I don't like Linksys routers for ADSL, I prefer Speedtouch, or even Netgear.

There is NOT a zero missing ...

Have you sorted everything on YOUR side. If using XP, are your MTU and RWIN settings OK, have you tried running the DSL reports tweak test. What does the Task Manager graph look like when running a BT speedtest, or a TBB meter 20MB file download?

Oh I have a range of routers...

Cisco by Linksys WAG120N
Netgear DG834G
Orange Livebox

All of which give similar results. I wish it was as simple as the router being sub-standard but it doesn't appear to be so.

Download speedachieved during the test was - 673 Kbps
For your connection, the acceptable range of speeds is 600-7150 Kbps.
Additional Information:
Your DSL Connection Rate :7648 Kbps(DOWN-STREAM), 448 Kbps(UP-STREAM)
IP Profile for your line is - 6000 Kbps

Ouch !

The only slightly odd thing, the IP profile should be higher if that's a stable 7684 sync, like maybe it's recovering from a series of recent low syncs ?? That said, through put should be higher. Does anyone remember the url for that (Plusnet I think) site that showed exchange congestion ?

In reply to a post by Zarjaz:

...Does anyone remember the url for that (Plusnet I think) site that showed exchange congestion ?

http://usertools.plus.net/exchanges/

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That's the very thing !!

I have enough problems on my Jurassic 20CN line - I hadn't checked my exchange VP status for quite a while (it was always *green*) but I've just looked and it's now *amber*

Happy New Year to everyone as I'm off for this year
See you all in 2012...