I used to have 35+down and 10+ up, but now we've switched to centurylink from comcast so now we have suckish speeds. I can't host MC servers anymore =/ But at my school, At my school, I have gotten actual speeds of 1000mbit down and 500mbit up. Uploaded a 12gig youtube video like it was nothing. Downloaded a large virtual machine image in under 5 minutes.
Yep... I'm not at school atm so I can't test right now. On Monday I will test again and give you updated numbers if you'd like
Nah our school's IT staff are STUPID. They have no idea what they are doing... Very easy to get around any security protocols they put in place. For example, they block minecraft. I rename it to anything but minecraft, it works. I name mine either "meincraft.exe" or "notminecraft.exe". Also, if a program requires admin permissions, and since our student accounts are not admin, all we have to do is right click on the file, run as admin, and it works! This is how I torrent at school since they block all the programs. even if you aren't admin, you click run as admin and it bypasses it.