>> 1.8Mb, switch off, set up 2wire, switch on, test speed at bbmax which had immediately fallen to .5 and stayed so for the rest of my testing (2hours).
okay - thats fair enough - just had to check really :/
>> Within that 5 minutes the 2wire would have had the wrong settings while I put in the correct settings.
It does seem to short of a period for anything like that to occur, the only other thing I can think is if some of tiscalis centrals are more contended than others.. just trying to think of anything else it could possibly have been.. but bearing in mind you said you rebooted a few times and there was some doubts anyhow about that particular router, then it is looking like the router could have been the cause?
>> Would it be the bRas profile?
cant honestly say without checking the BTw performance tester.
I suppose if you put the ST back on and that came back up at 1.8Mb then that would have shown it was the router rather than the bRAS profile.