[acdha]

This _very_ much depended on where you are. I had symmetric 10Mbps at home in 1998 but when we moved to New Haven in 2008 Verizon couldn't deliver more than ISDN / T1 to large chunks the city (we literally could have used a WiFi antenna to hit their regional headquarters, too). There's so much deferred maintenance around the world.

[icedchai]

True, true! I had a 3 megabit cable modem at home, back in 1998 (3 megabits down, 128kbits up, if I recall.)

My office at the time had dual T1's... a little over 3 megabits shared with roughly 500 people.