Crazy low speed from the off

hi all,
im a (relatively) new BT customer in a brand new build house. Before moving in i did some digging around to see what sort of speeds i could get with different providers and settled on BT as they seemed to be the best average and i preferred the BT home hub compared to the other ISPs offerings. (i would also add that im an IT engineer so did the usual **bleep** studying beforehand although whether this is a disadvantage remains to be seen)
i have been on the service for a month or two now and am getting dreadful low speeds.  On average i get 750kbps down (max 950kbps) and 200kbps up.  i have checked the disitance to the exchange with all the usual tools and its 0.9 miles away apprently.  I have checked out all of my wiring and tried several ADSL filters but this is the speed i am stuck with.
I opened a case with BT and am getting the usual. (i would mention at this point that there is an issue with the BT site where you check what speeds you MAY get, if you're not a BT customer (which i wasn't) and you stick your address you get the 'up to 12meg' result, if you ARE a BT customer then you put your actual phone number in you get the REAL result.  in my case i was advised i would get 'around 12meg' but then i was told i would actually get 'around 1meg', this is not good)
i am advised by BT that my exchange will get ADSL2 by the end of this year (2x-3x? ADSL) but im not counting my chickens.  For info i came from a great 20meg cable connection in my old house so theres a big old step in the right direction
Im sure that this has been covered many a time on these forums so apologies if i just havent found my answers and feel free to just link me somewhere or copy and paste some jazz
anyone have any ideas or suggestions?
thanks in advance
David

As already been advised in bits and bobs:
The top tips for a good connection on a long line are as follows:
1) Is removing the bell wire as I have already advised and to have a good clean socket, with all the wires moved away from the connected wires, or snipped off all together, just to ensure as little interference as possible.
2) Would be to get a business hub, there are two available on Ebay, the 2701 (pictured right) and the 2700hgv (pictured left), now the 200HGV's seem to give a better sync speed by about 300kbps give or take, but I find they are less stable, whereas the 2701 decreases the sync speed but is far more stable, and good at holding onto low SNR's, I've seen it hold all night at -2dB Noise Margin and Im on a 9km line.
3) Would be to get a shieled RJ11 cable, as this can reduce the amount of interference, and also importantly it has the twists in as the telephone cables do to refract UV radiation, and Impulse noise just to name a few things.  And the ends of them are gold plated with 24k gold just to ensure maximum transition .
Regards Edd
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