First thing I always do is find the master socket and remove the fascia. Plug your router directly into this socket and re-test the connection speeds. This eliminates any noise/etc from extensions you have running round the house. If it's still really low when connected like this then you will probably have to live with it. Unless you can move to fibre/cable provider like Virgin. Moving to a different ADSL provider will have little to no difference on the connection speeds because they all use the same infrastructure. The main differences between providers are the package costs and what's called traffic-shaping (This is a way for the ISP to restrict different types of internet traffic on your line). BT employ a fairly aggressive policy at peak times, to ensure that everyone has adequate bandwidth. So for example between the hours of midnight to 6-7am I can download at almost 2MB/s but round tea-time I'm lucky if I can get more than 50KB/s.
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