Im on a 2mbit line for about 35 uk pounds. Though we are going through a speed craze in the uk. I think you can get a 8mbit for about 40 uk pounds from some places. But they are starting to place restrictions on bandwidth... :(
I have 2mbit cable here (Switzerland) for roughly 50E a month (been this way for little over a year, the next round should be just around the corner I guess). So far, no ISP dared to implement traffic restrictions (whomever has me pay for BW won't get my business and it's the same with most people I know) and Swisscom is even thinking about going to VDSL until 2007. But I doubt they'll offer unrestricted 50mbit VDSL like in South Korea...
pubsvn.ez.no is currently connected for downloads at 34Mbit/s, uploads for the community repository are max 8Mbit/s for most of you and also 34Mbit/s for those on the pan-european acedemic Gbit network (Geant). No restrictions on volume transferrred.
Whenever pubsvn updates from the main ez repository the server is offline. Maybe you connected when the update was underway? Usually the main page tells you of the status.
If it is down for no reason wait a while. The next update may fix it.
Teh bottom line: do not try to access pubsvn.ez.no from 8h15 to 8h30, from 16h15 to 16h30 and 22h15 to 22h30 CET.
Currently, pubsvn.ez.no has a few recurring downtimes each day: at around 19 minutes past 8, 16 and 22h CET pubsvn is rsynced with zev.ez.no.
In order to avoid corruptions, the repository is closed (shutdown of apache necessary) in a staged procedure where the current svn repository is replaced with a fresh copy.
The entire procedure usually takes roughly 5 minutes since the config changes at zev.ez.no (it used to take a few hours before)
3 updates a day also enables a large window for more successful downloads of the livecd sections.