Boy, have I gotten spoiled with Verizon FiOS.  I’ve got 20mb down, 2 (or 5) up, and it’s not shared bandwidth. I have sub-10ms ping times to core sites.  I pay $100/month for the business version, which gives me 5 static IPs and no blocked ports.

We’ve had a hard-wired, always-on, dedicated Internet connection our house since 1992 (in some form:  56k DDS, ISDN, etc.).  But for the past year, I’ve experienced something I never expected:  I have far better bandwidth at home than work.