Hi Craigfoxy1,
One can understand the frustration of not being able to get through to support when one has problems, however if followed, the self-help advice provided on these forums can be highly productive in promptly identifying the right course of action to fully resolve issues.
I note that you raised line issues on the forums back in Nov 2013 - 29 Nov 2013
http://community.plus.net/forum/index.php/topic,120711.msg1046573.html#msg1046573 - Matt Taylor asked you to follow the fault reporter. What was the result of that activity? Did it result in a BTOR visit or any improvement delivered by some other means?
You have recently opened a thread on packet loss - 12 Apr 2014
http://community.plus.net/forum/index.php/topic,126042.msg1094906.html#msg1094906 - that is likely to be related to line issues - it is very helpful to only run one thread on issues.
You had a long wait for your line to be installed when you joined PN; your profile locates you somewhere around Liverpool - I'm wondering if there are over loading issues in your locality, which would be beyond PN's ability to fully rectify.
Anyhow, lets see what can be done to help you. First can you please post your router stats as described here -
http://community.plus.net/forum/index.php/topic,96155.0.html - that will give some visibility as to how your line is performing and how it should perform. It is useful to see those stats in the morning and in the evening after dark on both dry and wet days. Note that there are circumstances where a fault may or may not show-up on testing / on inspection at the time of an engineer visit. This is especially the case where the issues are more predominant in wet weather.
Is there a time when the problem is worse than normal? Is there noise on the line? You can listen to the "background" noise on the line by dialling 17070 option two - listen for hiss and crackles. Any fault with the basic phone line is going to cause havoc with broadband. If PN provides your voice service as well as your broadband, then PN will be able to manage the whole of the fault rectification process. If someone else provides the voice service and there is noise on the line, then that other party will need to deal with that issue FIRST.
There is the possibility that there is nothing wrong with your line, rather there is something wrong with your internal wiring (if there is any) or that something completely external to the telephone system is "generating noise" (REIN) into the line. This can be very difficult to locate and in some cases impossible to eliminate. Such noise can come from microwaves, central heating system controls, fridges, switch mode power supplies... through to passing electric trains.
Let us hope that you do not have these problems and the request fault diagnostic / reporting process you have again been requested to complete identifies a fixable issue.
Superusers are not staff, but they do have a direct line of communication into the business in order to raise issues, concerns and feedback from the community.
