Getting the best possible available speed?

During the 5 years since we moved house, our BT download speed has been dropping, and becoming more unstable.
Several Openreach engineers have visited the property, and all say basically that the problem is all down to the very old small section 300 pair copper e-side cable which runs from our nearest exchange (Leominster) - about 5.5km away, to a cabinet which is literally right outside our property, and from which we have a virtually direct feed.
Now, according to the engineer who came today, the 'output' from the exchange is 8Mb/s and a good 'pair' into the cabinet should still give almost 3 Mb/s at the cabinet... not great I know, and no sign of Infinity here yet!
My download speed on the BT Speedtest this morning was a fairly typical 665 Kb/s, but the engineer checked in the cabinet, on another 'pair' (which he later found to be a blocked line) which was showing a speed of about 2.5 Mb/s on his equipment. He duly switched us onto this, but the cabinet speed then only showed about 1.1 Kb/s. His answer to this was... "They must have been using a different ISP!"
I believe that the exchange is also 'used' by Orange and 'TalkTalk' but of course they still have to use the same BT 'cable' from there to the cabinet. My ISP is BT, so who can I contact to ensure that I am receiving the maximum speed which has been shown to be available?
Sorry for the long post, but I can obviously post some more 'stats' if that will help at all, but I think it has been definitely established by now, that it is an 'external', rather than an internal problem... but if it does make any difference I have a Home Hub 3 plugged into the master socket, which feeds my PC directly.

it would help with more stats so please can you post the adsl stats from your router may need to 'show detail' to get all stats (if hub enter 192.168.1.254 in your browser and navigate to adsl or use a-z, if netgear enter 192.168.0.1) and run btspeedtester http://speedtester.bt.com and post the results.
Have you tried the quiet line test? - dial 17070 option 2 - should hear nothing - best done with a corded phone
Someone may then be able to offer help/assistance/suggestions to your problem
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