Well, I guess I'd better start checking facts instead of quoting numbers from memory...

OK, I was ass backwards--Everything I see here is in megabits per second, not megabytes

According to the Network+ Guide to Networks (Tamara Dean, 2002, Thomson Learning Course Technology) pp. 322-326, the maximum throughput of aDSL is 8 Mbps down and 1.544 Mbps up

Most commercial home "DSL" connections, however, are actually G.Lite, which has a maximum of 1.544 Mbps up and 0.612 Mbps down

sDSL is 1.544 Mbps in both directions.

The fastest available DSL technology (barring anything released since the publication of this book) is VDSL, which provides 6.4 Mbps up and 51.8 Mbps down, which beats even cable, which has 36 Mbps down and 10 Mbps up, assuming that absolutely nobody else is on the same cable segment.

I don't think that any home users have VDSL, since it is the equivalent of a SONET OC1 connection (on the downstream; I think with SONET, you get the same high throughput on both uploads and downloads); OC1 and VDSL are better than a flaming T3, and I think I priced out a T3 connection at $18,000 USD per month (That part's from memory, I'm not looking it up anywhere). If anybody can afford an eighteen thousand dollar a month internet connection, would they please buy EoFF a better server?