Let's put it this way, until I was able to move up to 56k, I believe my average download speed was 1kb/s. After moving to 56k, I think my averaged became like, 3 kb/s on a good day, slowly moving down to 1 kb/s again by the time we switched to high speed. Actually, by that point in time, 1kb/s was a good speed, since we were more often than not operating at less than that.
THAT is slow internet. Especially when you're doing things like downloading 100 MB demos of games.... Anyone here remember HappyPuppy?