How is this remotely possible?

Hello, I mentioned this several months back but it seems things have changed a bit since then...
Here is an image of where I live:
The green marker is the exchange.
The red marker is where I live.
The blue markers are two friends I know who live in a nearby village.
As you can see I live about 4 times closer to the exchange than both my friends. We all connect to this exchange and therefore our phone lines must travel the same direction and past the same obstructions/obstacles.
Heres the problem...
Our internet connects at about 2.8MBPS - 3MBPS giving us an average download speed of about 250kb/s
One of my friends has a download speed of ~500kb/s and the other ~600kb/s....
How is this even remotely possible that they can live 4 times further from the exchange yet get double my speeds? What can I do to get this fixed? Clearly BT have screwed up the route my phone line takes...

Sweeney47 wrote:
yes im sure im not mixing Kilobits (KBPS) and kilobites (kb/s)
As I said I connect at about 2.8MBPS giving me a 250kb/s download speed. I dont know my mates Sync rate but I know they get download speeds of 500/600kb/s
Hence when the other day my mate says he's downloading a demo at 600kb/s I was gob-smacked. His line attenuation is lower than mine, I cant remember off the top of my head what he said but it was around the 50 mark so 8 less than mine. Either way his line attenuation (according to kitz calculator) implies a line length of 3.6KM so about 600m shorter than mine. YET he lives four times further away...
Not a lot you can do then as your line must be doing a load of laps before getting to your property. 
One of my brothers has a simialr problem (lives a few hundred meters from me) and can only get 1mbit down and 448kbps up.  His line does a few laps of the area whereas mine is a direct underground cable.
Kind regards... Tom
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