Locally I pay $60 for 25 Mbit on Cox, and usually get up to 30-35Mbit throughput if I have some good compression and a fast enough source (ie newsgroups). In my last apartment it chugged around primetime, but at my current house it's golden. I wish they'd hurry up with DOCIS3 so I can upgrade to 50Mbit.
My girlfriend is in the middle of absolute nowhere. She does get DSL, but it's not even a megabit. When I used a hacked PRL to have my Evo roam on Verizon's cell network up there, I got faster speeds off that. The real kicker is that she stays in a detached garage apartment and her landlords, living not more than 25 feet away, are "too far away" to get DSL.