Getting a fast upload speed even in the UK can be tricky. My ISP will do a max of 1.3MB and that's only if you are very close to the nearest exchange. The top cable broadband packages will do around 1.5MB but coverage is limited to the few at the moment and those packages are expensive. The situation in Ireland is even worse but with time I am sure they'll get there.

Hope business is going well. Doing just fine here. I am missing DIRECTV a bit - I have access to Bell in Canada but the download speed never gets over 1000k :(