The "progress" is ok.
I don't know where you saw that I'm using ul.to exclusively, but you're right - I am, most of the time.
I'm trying all the time now all the other hosts as uploader and downloader.
I've tried also the 'not paying' hosts too including rapidshare, wupload.... and I
definitely can say that ul.to is the best now.
The upload speed is 30-85MB/s most of the time, when the others is max 1.2MB/s!!!
They just tripled their servers a few days before the 'Megaupload effect' happened.
The download speed is also the best of all hosts for free users.
You probably saying that you get 50-70KB/s when on rapidshare you get 1.1-1.4MB/s.
Try to download for one week 24 hours a day from both ul.to and rapidshare as a free user and you will see the difference (of downloaded GBs), I tried.
Here you get stable speeds of 50KB/s on rush hours and 1.5-2MB 70% of the days, and 100% of nights.
On rapidshare (again - for example only) you can't download at all 2-3 days a week and a few hours every day.
And after all, after they divided their payment table by 3, They still paying the most of all who left.
This is my short review.
You can ask questions if you want.
Edit: By the way, I don't think they ban US visitors/IPs anymore.
If someone can verify this, Please do that, I'm waiting.