1.5 meg DSL with 48 K upload. Never had any packet loss, high ping during peak hours, or DHCP hiccups. 15 a month, Indiana dollars.
Edit: And to followup even further like MasterRE did.. (a bit of HW info, that is.)
Athlon XP 3200
GeForce 6800 Ultra w/ 256 MB
60 gig ATA 100
120 gig SATA 150
DVDRW 8x w/ Dual Layer & LightScribe burning.