Peerless you are talking about Kbytes and not kbits??? For $50 per month... I believe I have to move.
I pay 28 euro (about $34) euro for mine and have 768k (96 Kb) down and 128k (16Kb) up and this is cheap for Germany... you can double the price for a "fast" connection with 1,5Mbit down and 128k up.
Morgwen