I am planning for my future budget woes. I want to pay the least possible without having a dial up modem. I pay $19.95 a month for dry loop dsl (without a phone line) and have Ooma voip phone service for $13.00 a year. It is only 700Kbps down, but suffices for my causes. I get digital tv thru an antenna (free)--no cable. The dsl has been down only twice in the 8 years I've been here. In doing the speakeasy test, I measured it while the slow download was in progress. It registered 250K download, so I suppose since it was simultaneous I was getting 500K at that time. The actual speed of the download in question was dropping to as little as 30kbps (not 300k) as displayed on the download.