I changed my provider to Telecom so I could jump on VDSL about a week ago. The guy from Chorus came today and wired it in.
When I signed up over the phone they indicated that it was pretty borderline as to weather I would see a good result or not.
Aparently I was right on the limit of the scale they used (cant remember what it was but I was a 10).
Now the technician told me when he arrived that I was 1300m from the cabinet. Optimal he said was <1000m but they would install up to 1500m.

After installation I checked my stats on the router.



As you can see the speed is pretty pathetic.
Also, the attenuation is really high.

Now the jackpoint where the router is plugged in was a dodgy home job with a 15m white extension run under the house to one of the original points.
The point where its tapped into is where the technician installed the splitter/filter. There is another point on the other side of that room also.
I have tried the router in both of those points. On the one where the filter is installed, the broadband light would not flash (or even turn on).
At the point on the other side of the room, the light would flash but it would not connect.

Would I be right in assuming that the filter is not at the start of the line? When he was installing the filter all the wires were disconnected yet the point over the other side of the room was still connected as the phone still had a dial tone.
If that is the case, would it make any difference?
How about the dodgy home installed extension?

I understand theres a few negative things going on here but I was expecting a slightly better connection than this.
I've read a few people complaining about their poor connection speeds but they were still getting significantly better.
On normal broadband I was getting almost the same  11mbps down .5mbps up and around 40 ping.