I have had mine ADLS for about 2 years and Only one day it was down the whole time I have had it.
I get mine from Covnet. I was The first house around with it. I download from most sites around 150K and It will get up to 1100K yes that is right 1.1Mb a sec. cable modems around here are slow at lest one day a week 20-40K I all that they will do and on the other days it is around 100-300K