It depends on allot of things such as the people you are connected to and what ther bandwith is just because it says cable or T1 does'nt mean you are going to connect to a high speed. I have cabel with pretty good DL capabilties 700kbs but I can only UL at 40kbs most companys limit your UL capabilties. Most of the time I limit my UL to 10 which means 40/10=4kbs per person all things being eaquil. So if you have 8 people UL to you doing the same as I do 8x4=32kbs. Really 40kbs is not bad if you were on dial up you would be getting a much lower DL speed. Hope this helps to better understand the network.

Latter Grandpa