My exchange is broadband enabled, but I live 200m too far away from it! Akkkk! And the lines to my area are so crap I get a max of 32kbaud.

I feel for you....

I was at someone's house over the weekend when I saw something funny. I noticed that they had connected they PC to the phone line in a very odd way.

Both ends were normal, but two feet from the PC the modem cable dissappeared into a plastic terminal block, out of the other side came a two core mains cable. The mains cable then ran for 40 feet or so to the phone socket where there was another plastic terminal block connecting the mains cable to the other end of the modem cable.

You'll never guess what speed connection they were managing...

...a steady 45k on every connection. Before I got ADSL I never, ever, managed more that 38k on a modem connection. I obviously wasn't using enough mains lead !