ADSL is the only fixed-line broadband service available where I am (although the government is slowly rolling out fibre here -- the original Ready for Service date was just two months from now) and I'm roughly 3.5KM from the exchange. Said exchange has no third-party infrastructure, meaning all ISPs that service the area have to essentially rent customer ports, bandwidth, etc. from the incumbent telco, translating to higher prices than other areas wherein ISPs have installed their own equipment; and if you don't want to pay ~$100+ per month, people in my position are limited to "cheap and (at least somewhat) nasty" options if they want a generous download limit -- in my case, I pay $70 a month for an unmetered connection (excluding mandatory line rental, which is again something those in my position have to put up with), but it's artificially capped to 8Mbit down (which I'm okay with as I'm too far from the exchange to reach that, anyway) and 0.384Mbit down (which is frustratingly slow).
Max Payne 3 took around 15 hours, IIRC; Rage was too long ago for me to remember.
Sorry to hear that fellow GAFfer, it's indeed a shame you are paying such amount of money for that service. If you are fine with the 8Mbit it's okay but it would be nice if they could at least improve your Download speed.
I must say for all the difficulties my country is passing with the Economy and such we (as many others in Europe) can't really complain about Download speeds since Optic Fiber is a really common thing now in many places. The quality of such service is, however, another story but the speeds are fine and Optic Fiber really does help.
