i use a wide range of connections in different houses i visit, and i find anything lower then 1Mbps is a bit slow for me, my dad lives in a very small and (for this area) remote part of the town, so they're being slow about improving his internet, so most of the time, the connection is 500KB/s.

where i am now is not too far away from there, but i can pick up one of the UK's best connections (virgin) which means i get around 2MB/s peaks, but averagely around 1MB/s, this is still plenty good speeds

in my uni house, from what i tested (for like a day), it's on a fibre optic virgin connection, so it can max, and sit comfortably at 5MB/s!!! i personally think this is more then i need, seen as a lot of websites in the uk seem to load slower then that, but it's not something I'm going to complain about :).

so, what i was trying to say was, anything around 1MB/s - 2MB/s is good for me:)