Aluminium cable causes slow speed what's Open Reac...

Hi
I have had Infinity for 12 months and have had speeds issues since day 1.
I now have dropped to 6MB down and have never exceeded .5MB up (not a typo 1/2 of 1 MB up)
The problem is due to Aluminium cable between my house and the FTC. BT wont replace the cable so I will never get the promised speed.
How can I get a stable service and what is the policy on these old cables as I am sure a copper connection will resolve the issues.
This weekend a BT engineer will visit my house and probably lift a few man holes and re-terminate the cables which will result in speeds of upto 15MB if I am lucky which will last for a few weeks or until heavy rain. At that point it will revert to 6MB.
Any advise greatly received.
Peter

peterdavies wrote:
Thanks to everyone for the helpful comments.
Quick update - Open Reach came on Saturday and confirmed the speed was 6MB and did a test that showed a sync speed of 10MB was obtainable.
They then left it at the original Sync speed of 6MB since they said it would just degrade again.
They have raised the cable as a fault but I get the impression that the only way to get the cable replaced is if someone steals the existing one. The post code for anyone wanting Aluminum is BH24 2LG.
Does not seem much point in Open Reach investing in high speed services if the old infrastructure destroys the benefits.
Probably going to switch to Sky broadband to see if a new line service will improve the speed since it will be a different pair of wires and maybe different equipment?
Any thoughts please.....
6MB is a very good speed, it equals to a 60mb connection. The highest you can get on Infinity is 76mb.

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