I had Ultra up and until about 3 months ago when I moved to an area that does not have Aliant DSL service. For the year I had Ultra, I never went below the advertised 5 Mbps. Downloads where always in the 600 k/s range off of sites like microsoft and download.com. Best of all they do not seem to block torrents in any shape of forum. Could be better, of course but could be much much worse (I see that know after using satallite high speed, YUCK)