[shampster]

I'd do 56kbps download, 48kps upload, at 100ms. Still loads this comments page fairly fast!

[kalleboo]

Kilobits or kilobytes? A 56k modem is max 56 kilobits/s, a.ka. 7 kilobytes/s (although realistically I never synced over 50k, and more common something like 48k)