After reading the replies made in response to the thread I checked out the link birdy provided.

Therefore if my connection is 28.8kbps / 8 = 3.6kps
I then accepted the fact that I was never going to reach higher
dl speeds ...I cried.

By Wednesday I'm getting satellite internet.
Unfortunately I'm living in a rural area and no DSL is available.

The connection speed is (according to the version I opted for) is:

700kbps download speed
128kbps upload speed


thanks for the help everybody \m/ \m/