well, speed is not gonna make a huge difference if the ISP has capped ur download to 1 or 2 GB...so we need to be given good data limit and gradually boost the speeds to 8 Mbps and then 12 mbps n all, but MTNL wirings r done in stone ages and they cant even take the burden of 2 mbps, then how can we expect that we would be getting 16 Mbps or more on such lines..so they need to seriously think about everything before launching too high speeds..well, right now it looks like Airtel is the only contender who can provide great speeds, since there wiring matches with international quality and thus they can afford to provide great speeds.anyways 8 mbps is not a bad speed, even the average speed is US is around 10 Mbps and in UK its 6 Mbps...so we r doing ok right now, but having said that India's average speed is still 400 kbps or something even after most of ISP's started giving 2mbps.