You should be syncing at about 24 Meg. The reason you are not is that your ISP has put you on a banded profile, the lowest of these Banded Profiles. You need to call them to remove any banding.
1999: Freeserve 48K Dial-Up => 2005: Wanadoo 1 Meg BB => 2007: Orange 2 Meg BB => 2008: Orange 8 Meg LLU => 2010: Orange 16 Meg LLU => 2011: Orange 20 Meg WBC
vivaciti (knowledge is power)
Mon 27-Apr-15 12:43:58
Personally, I don't have any confidence that the bloke in the shop in Oldham will be able to offer business support. I think you need to find a way out of the contract ideally. The best you can hope for is that a modem in the test socket will yield line stats that look ok indicating the fault is local extension wiring.
Sorry missed that. I can't imagine what has caused that much banding then. It should be a relatively simple matter to get TalkTalk or whoever to reset it though.