I will not talk of what you can get abroad.
It is almost impossible nowadays, to get a good shared connection. Unless your ISP has very few users, you will be stuck at slow speeds. How slow ? That would depend on the connection your ISP has chosen and the number of users online.
My ISP uses a bandwidth monitor/manager. Which is a good thing, or else i would have got even slower speed when someone would be multi-threading.
MAK, if you need good speeds, only way is dedicated connections : ) ..