Cable connections come in varying speeds....I had the fastest speed, which was something like 6 or 8 MB/s, and it would start out very fast, but I think it dropped to around 300 kb/s and stayed for very large files like mods.

It's been a while since I had it, and it isn't offered in my area, so I've been using dial-up for the last year.

If you have the 1 MB/s connection (or maybe 768 KB/s is the lowest cable available...I don't really know), I could see how 70 KB/s would be where it tops out.

Heh, I'm happy when I can maintain 6 KB/s.