Glad I ventured into this part of the forum.
My max download speed is around 115 kbps, which is 1 meg I think, although paying for 2meg, my ISP is Pipex like Xelis, and they throttle the download speed at about 3/4pm to early morning so I have to download in the morning. Moving to BeThere (24meg) is on my to-do list, and it's actually cheaper than Pipex I think - luckily I live close to my telephone exchange as well so all's well.