and make the change "stick" - that's where my tech experience falls down as I've never done that (when we had ADSL, our SNR set by the exchange kit was 15 or 18...) - I thought it needed the ISP to make the change permanent but could be wrong. Not an expert with the various packages and quotas but fairly sure O2/BE is unlimited and so if it's at your exchange then that might be your best option, opinions on BE are quite mixed but it does generally get good reviews and seems to appeal to the more tech people who like to fiddle around with the settings like the SNR. As far as getting out of your contract - ADSL24 are providing a perfectly acceptable (assumption) ADSL "up to XX" meg service with no guarantees so to be able to be released from it without penalty will require the two things I mentioned above to be true, otherwise you'd have to rely on their goodwill to let you leave, or else buy, or wait, the contract out. Do you really need "unlimited" broadband? As that's what is massively limiting your choice. Did you have it before? Do you really use so much data over a slow link to need to be able to use any amount? Some routers, such as older NetGear models, do allow you to tweak the target noise margin but it's usually only a temporary fix until the routers log fills up and results in an