Approximately how speedy is your Internet connection?

I care about upload speed too.. which is typical 512kb which sucks.

Competition helps. I had a fun revelation of relation of commercial posibilities vs. technical possibilities very recently. Been using ADSL for years, paying for a 20 Mb/s connection and getting only 8 Mb/s. Official excuses was always that there were technical limitations in the local endpoint bla bla bla. I live in rural Netherlands (as far as that exists ... town with 10.000 inhabitants is considered rural here) so I thought oh well ok they'll upgrade eventually.

Then a company starts a trial with fiber to the home: if 30% of the inhabitants presubscribe to FTTH, they'll lay down the infrastructure and connect all the houses in the town to fiber.

Two weeks later ... presto ... my ADSL connection suddenly jumps to the previously technically impossibly to achieve speed of 20 Mb/s.

Needless to say I gave my ADSL provider the finger and am now happily connected to the world at large by glass&light.