At speedtest, I got 2526/419, and at my ATT-Yahoo, I got 2544/440. Pretty close.
Strange, but, to me, astound.net looked like they were touting their own stuff.
Yes, but their stuff is just ordinary home cable, with 6 Mb down but only 384 Kb up. The fast guys are full duplex, equal up and down, like for servers. Astound won't do your server any good, but they will gladly let you rent theirs.