With BT Wholesale and O2 Wholesale you can get as low as 3dB and with TalkTalk Wholesale a 6dB setting is possible. As T4F asks, what router/modem are you using?? Some of the chipsets are better than other at extracting that little extra bit of sync from poor lines; switching from Netgear to TPLink gave me nearly a whole megabyte extra - 5.5/6.5Mbps Sorry for late replies. I was using a DGDN3700 NETGEAR which today has just been sent away as that device to be honest is a bit tacky (despite paying 120 quid for it) They are replacing it with a V2 which is apparently a lot better. Right now I am using a old Sky Sagem router (which I hacked for other ISP'S in this case ADSL24) I can post the stats from the sagem right now if required. I also just got a reply back from ADSL24 as per my ticket and it's made my blood boil to be honest. The request to leave was granted...........IF I pay them 25 QUID! Which has really cheesed me off as i'm getting no real support from their supplier. It's as if i'm being punished for reporting a drop in speed since I joined which makes me quite sad. I was actually going to ask Aquiss (Martin) about coming back but with the latest update to my ticket that seems quite unlikely now I was actually going to ask Aquiss (Martin) about coming back but with the latest update to