Yup, you may just have to wait for 4G to become available unless you are one of two things:
1. A pre-approved area to get part of the government grant to improve communications infrastructure.
2. On an estate with a high population density which is not finished being built. You may then have the possibility that Virgin or BT will lay the fibre. If the estate is finished, you are stuck with your 1meg.
I have a friend in Grange Park in Northampton and one in Walnut Tree. Both fairly new estates, yet neither has fibre or any signs of getting the service. They are also stuck on the 1meg connection which gives them a useable bandwidth of around 50-80k. This means, it is one person on the net at a time, you cannot play a game and let someone browse at the same time, it lags the gamer out and downloading is impossible.
We have had several conversations with BT over speeds and reliability etc. In short here is what they / you can do:
• Remove any filter or splitter from your main phone point (this is the main line, not an extension).
• Do not plug extensions or splitters into main phone point
• Plug router directly to main phone point
• Try a different ADSL filter (if you don't use the phone, don't bother)
• They can adjust your download and upload rates to try and get the best speed from your line. Most of the time, setting the cap higher than your line can continuninously provide will actually slow your connection down.
• You really are restricted by the technology in your exchange and how far you are away from it.
It will be fibre or 4G in the future bud.
