i tried out yahoo DSL once and called them complaining. They said "we only guarantee the speed on our network". I then connected my cable modem and browsed the exact same pages at 8x the speed. You do realize a couple of things though: Bandwidth varies during the day due to usage. Cable modems share bandwidth with everyone nearby. And the speed advertised is kilobit, not byte (probably) and finally, it is a combo of up and download. Oh and one more thing i forgot. I was getting 2MB/sec from my last broadband provider until i installed a hardware firewall and it cut it down to about 300k/s. I just got 10.0MB cable internet and i haven't got to use it yet. I am hoping my shiny-new LinkSys doesn't do the same.