welll if you use cable internet then it should be normal... for example... i download 700mb from torrent in less than 5 mins... and i dont complain about it... its because its shared line...
if you use naked adsl or adsl then its little odd... adsl is little picky about speed and bandwidth because its private line and isp will monitor it... so test your internet at
Speedtest.net - The Global Broadband Speed Test and
Pingtest.net - The Global Broadband Quality Test...
ps... i think you want useful netmeter over your old bandwidth monitor... because it got report/statistic and start up at the window...