I'm on a semi-rural connection outside Rotorua.  When we installed the Chorus guy told me the copper was dodgy, but our road doesn't really have any other lines spare.  I'm also at least 3km from the exchange.  So I have limited expectations, but.....I'm syncing at 1.94Mbps down, 0.72Mbps up.  An ookla speedtest basically gives the same result (unsurprisingly), with a ping of 34ms, download of 1.65 and upload of 0.63.

I'm looking at my options to improve this, because many things aren't particularly usable at that speed (particularly any sort of streaming media, but actually lots of web pages as well).

Options I see at the moment:
1.  Work with Vodafone to see if we can improve the line quality.  That might mean getting Chorus out to work on it, or asking them to try another line (if there is one), or something else.  I have a feeling that this won't help much, but if it doubled speed to 4Mbps, that'd actually be a hell of a lot better.

2.  Buy an alternative modem instead of the SHG1500 that Vodafone gave me.  I see that it's considered to be pretty average at best, perhaps a modem with a better ADSL chipset would give a better sync speed?  I'm not keen to spend money here unless there's some likelihood of getting better speed.

3.  Move to a wireless option.  Spark tell me that I can get 4G, no doubt I could get Vodafone 4G as well.  Whilst this might be faster (almost certainly would be faster) it also looks to come with download caps that are much lower than my current ADSL plan.

Any advice or thoughts would be welcomed.