please disregard my angry title I was in a bad mood and lots of pain Here are my net specs I have two different Lines from two different ISPS The brighthouse one ( which is a backup ) which is 400 / 400 My primary line which is Verizon Fios 500 / 500 USA The results are mostly identical between the two Brighthouse and Fios are both Fiber with no cable repeaters leading to the source line in my area Pinging cds.n2x4r7s4.hwcdn.net [205.185.208.141] with 32 bytes of data: Reply from 205.185.208.141: bytes=32 time=64ms TTL=53 Reply from 205.185.208.141: bytes=32 time=52ms TTL=53 Reply from 205.185.208.141: bytes=32 time=49ms TTL=53 Reply from 205.185.208.141: bytes=32 time=35ms TTL=53 Ping statistics for 205.185.208.141: Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss), Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds: Minimum = 35ms, Maximum = 64ms, Average = 50ms In both cases Switching my VPN on produced 16 - 2000 + kb a second for all US destinations and typically end up with corrupted files upon completion, ( im in florida ) and when I select a EU destination ( in this case SWEDEN ) I get a sustained 20 + Megabytes per second rate throughout with no corruption upon completion It also did not seem to matter what server I was connected to.