That is fairly conclusive. The problem comes in identifying the defective joint.
Performing a TDR trace, whilst looking towards the exchange battery, and making a call to that circuit could give a good indication of the distance to suspect joint.
Thanks for that info, Engineer should be coming on 9th so unsure weather to make the engineer a brew first before saying what i suspect the issue is or just let him/she be.
My guess the defective joint will either be in the exchange or cab (Engineers cable joint busting when messing with birds nest, it happens quite often), failing that it might be on a road that was recently worked on however the fault didn't show its head till Wednesday (2nd) just gone at around 6pm so that might just rule out roadworks as that was end of last week.
What i find really funny is according to the router i have seen max attenable shoot from 8mb to 9.5mb its as if the connection is trolling me big time.
Just had the connection disco whilst typing this
Line rate (kbit/s) 7611 555
CRC errors 79191 0
FEC errors 1305 0
HEC errors 6252 0
Thats in a few seconds and that is going to require a profile reset after its fixed as its now disconnecting ever 10 seconds.