ok thnx for all the help guys....my problem seemed t9o have been rectified....a engineer came round today checked the exchange and told me some home truths about how crap BT really is at service......he got dem to rebuild my connection (whatever that means)
either way im back to a reasonble speed .
heres the my results after he left....
:::.. Download Stats ..:::
Download Connection is:: 3252 Kbps about 3.3 Mbps (tested with 5248 kB)
Download Speed is:: 397 kB/s
Tested From:: http://swiftjul04a.entadsl.com
Test Time:: 2007/02/05 - 10:21am
Bottom Line:: 57X faster than 56K 1MB Download in 2.58 sec
Tested from a 5248 kB file and took 13.219 seconds to complete
Download Diagnosis:: 90% + Okay : running at 95.34 % of your hosts average (btcentralplus.com)
D-Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-OYW4VJ7PG
User Agent:: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20061204 GranParadiso/3.0a1 [!]
thanks again roco you reassured me loads thnx again.