Tech question about installation, cabling, speed, ...

The gentleman who owns the company I work for has a home office with regular ADSL. He only gets about 2Mb from this line and would like it faster if possible.
I went on the BT checker page and it said Infinity was available and he could get 30Mb download speed. Please can someone tell me what end to end this check is conducted over? Does the test go all the way to the master socket in the house or does it just test between the 'exchange' and the BT box at the end of the street?
The reason I ask is that he has 50-100m of old overhead cable going in to his property (big drive/garden) and this is the main reason he has always cited for the slow bandwidth issue on ADSL as neighbours who live closer to the BT box fair much better for ADSL speeds and a neighbour who recently had a new long overhead cable installed also did much better.
I am concerned that if I order this product for him the speeds will be far lower than those promised because of the poor quality cables between his house and the BT box.
Please can someone advise?
Many thanks in advance. 

mjwilde wrote:
Thanks for your responses guys.
Infinitechris: the lady in the BT call centre I spoke to told me that it was the specific line in question that had been tested, although when I pressed her on the details of this (i.e. was it tested to the BT box or to the master socket in the house) she first said one, then later said the other. When I kept asking about this, she just kept telling me I didn't get it as it was fibre optic broadband. When I said the last 100m was an overhead cable and most definitely not fibre optic, she insisted that the line had been tested and the speeds she told me were the speeds I would get.
PLC: His actual usage will be quite low - just a few GB per month but what he wants is for things to happen quickly when he is online.
If you are just talking emails /web browsing, then he is hardly going to notice a speed improvement.
If you are talking Downloading large files/ streaming/ youtube, Iplayer etc then yes you will notice the difference
toekneem
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