Although the bandwidth seems high, it might not be as "fast" as the connection in the United States.
6m DSL and 10m cable is pretty standard for everyone in Hong Kong (for >$30/month?), and the bandwidth of these connection is quite high as "within the country" download speed can go up to 2000kb/s+, however, the major issues is that most server is located in the U.S. (e.g. hotmail, download.com) therefore, the average speed is probably even slower than the 1.5m connection here. (people get around 100k-150k for downloading from the US)