ISP for Low Quality Phone Line

I have been loking into ISps with a good friend who has the slowest connection on the planet.

His provider is Utility Warehouse
Distance from Exchange 4.5 kms
Line loss 75dB
Speed acheived 256k

I do not know who UW use as a supplier but I feel that it should be possible to do better than this from exchange MRCON.

Any suggestions?

Regards and Thanks
Meldrew

VDSL may be available. Use the DSL checker to find out www.dslchecker.bt.com

At 75db attenuation then the ADSL is on the very last knockings of it's signal.

You have made all the correct checks to see if the property wiring can be optimised for ADSL haven't you ?

Yes have made every check possible. ! It would appear however that Utility warehouse use an unbundled LLU line via Talk Talk. Maybe a direct BT connection would be better.

Before I could get FTTC I had a very poor ADSL service. I had loads of trouble with Zen who used the BT equipment. They actually ended up recommending I try an llu provider to get the most out of the connection. So really not sure switching to BT will help.

The best and most stable connection I had was with Sky who had equipment in my exchange.

We use UW as the provider but we are only 30 metres from a cabinet so usually get 14 - 15.5 mbps at most times of the day.

Your distance is probably the limiting factor

If the router is using ADSL2+ mode/modulation try switching to ADSL2 and plain old ADSL to see what the results are. ADSL2+ isn't so good on really long lines.
For a low cost ISP other than TalkTalk LLU it's between BT and Plusnet I suppose, hard to say whether Sky LLU would be much better than TT in this scenario.

BT will not help as they use profiles which are likely to suck more speed away.

This is much less of an issue on the ADSL2+ WBC service.

TalkTalk (which UW use) often default to a higher target noise margin, so without seeing all the stats it may be this that is costing some speed.

Suggest that you list some of those checks!