Well I think this has gone about as far as posssibe the technician was out at the pillar yesterday doing a pair(?) swap. He found a pair that was supposedly stable at 12.0Mbps and applied a stability profile that would limit my speed to 12Mbps. Unfortunately the connection dropped out within 2 hours of connecting at 12Mbps the final reconnection realised 9.7Mbps. While typing this my connection lost sync again and would not connect at all until I reset the router to default. Really this whole experience has been one thing after another and all has been done that can be done to get this connnection working properly. Now i will be attempting to get this contract cancelled and will discuss this with the Case Manager. Failing that it will be the TIO so that pretty much closes this thread, yet another example of the disgraceful standard of internet in Australia and regional Australia in particular.
Whoops another dropout I had to wait for reconnection to send this...........HOPELESS!!!!!!!