Griffin said: "ive heard there faster than a T1"
First off your not looking at the whole picture.
You need to consider the upload speed!
I just got my CS ded. box up (it used to run Halo) here comcast cable has 3Mbit download so its twice as fast a a T1 downoading. But the upload speed is an abominable 250-something. So I would have to buy 4 cable lines to equal the upload of a T1.
Even with that you would experience lag because almost all cable internet companies practice "throttling" of common game ports.
Even if you change your port often I have found that they will start intentionally lagging that port.
I have experienced this while running a halo server over a long period of time. And from setting up a test website.
So, if you are serious about good hosting screw cable, the original video cable network was never initially designed to handle uploading at all thats why they are so stingy with it.
10 Mbit would def. be a good bet especially if you anticipate clients having to dl custom maps.
Personally im interested in broadband over power lines 800 up + 800 down. 30$ a month, they are just starting to offer it. Plus the contract with powerline broadband has no "non-server" statements like comcasts. They let you run anything you want to!
Oh, BTW in europe they aren't usually called T1's.... they're called E1's and they run around 1900 Kbit/s. E1's are mainly/only US.
--Agent