revert back to ADSL from ADSL2+

[joll200x]

Howdy,

Having given ADSL2+ a few months to get its act together on my connection - it's failed miserably
Does anyone have any idea how I can get back to standard a standard ADSL connection? By comparison it was sooo much more stable and I wish I'd never moved to ADSL2+. I've got a nasty feeling my only option will be to get a new line connected and cancel my current line (which isn't going to be cheap I imagine).

Mucho thanks

[Simon]

It seems BT won't revert you, but will put an 8Mb 'cap' on the line to assimilate the old Max service, as I understand it.

[Lance]

You're cometely right, Simon.

Indeed, I'm not even sure if a new line would do the trick as i'm not sure if BT still connect users to a dslam. Support will be able to give the answer!

[Rik]

Talk to support, Joll. Things are getting better almost daily as BT are desperately trying to catch up with demand and are getting a lot of flak from ISPs. It's my belief that, by the end of the year at the latest, WBC will be a good product. I remember the introduction of Max, that caused much more pain. FWIW, I've seen my line improve from an initial 3Mb with WBC to 4Mb, 4.5Mb on a good day. Pings have dropped and throughput, after a couple of spells of problems, has picked up.

[joll200x]

thanks for all the suggestions guys.

I'm sure BT would love to get everyone on ADSL2+ to cap their connections!! My problem is I can't get anywhere near that so would be pretty pointless. If the line is on ADSL2+ it's still going to be uber sensitive to noise, wind direction, day of the week and whether or not I'm doing a voodoo dance in the front garden (not the same as me prodding my voodoo 'BT Doll' daily).
I might give support a call in the week but I don't want to waste their time when there are people with flakier connections than mine.

[Simon]

You won't be wasting their time.  That's what they're there for.