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63.5dB is not a bad number, and by itself does not preclude 1536kbps service.<br />
You may have a defective pair, with bad splices bridge taps, or hard ground.<br />
Boosters are not available, but you could employ a complainer who would call telco repair every hour and complain about noise on the line.<br />
The telco then may send somebody to remove any impairments, or to switch you to a different pair.
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63.5dB is not a bad number, and by itself does not preclude 1536kbps service.
You may have a defective pair, with bad splices bridge taps, or hard ground.
Boosters are not available, but you could employ a complainer who would call telco repair every hour and complain about noise on the line.
The telco then may send somebody to remove any impairments, or to switch you to a different pair.

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I am 19000 feet from the DSL telephone company switch and therefore have an attenuation of 63.5. &nbsp;As a result, whereas I could get a speed of 1.5 if I was closer to the switch, the telephone company reduced my speed to 350 (I had been getting a lot of errors and a low SNR). &nbsp;The telephone company will not put a booster or repeater between the switch and my office site, so I was wondering if there is a piece of hardware I can put at my office site and that I buy that would boost the DSL signal, lower the attenuation, and then allow the Telephone Company to reprogram back my DSL service to a speed of 1.5?
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I am 19000 feet from the DSL telephone company switch and therefore have an attenuation of 63.5.  As a result, whereas I could get a speed of 1.5 if I was closer to the switch, the telephone company reduced my speed to 350 (I had been getting a lot of errors and a low SNR).  The telephone company will not put a booster or repeater between the switch and my office site, so I was wondering if there is a piece of hardware I can put at my office site and that I buy that would boost the DSL signal, lower the attenuation, and then allow the Telephone Company to reprogram back my DSL service to a speed of 1.5?

DSL attenuation - can it be reduced with a booster or repeater

The term broadband commonly refers to high-speed Internet access that is always on and faster than the traditional dial-up access. Broadband includes several high-speed transmission technologies such as digital subscriber line (DSL), cable, fiber optics, wireless (for which there is a separate topic), satellite and broadband over powerlines (BPL).