Ooooh goody! I get to explain something first for once!
1.1mbps as you may have gathered is fairly quick...here's the techy bit:
Mbps means mega BITS per second, there are 8 BITS in a byte. So you divide your speed by 8 and you get your maximum upload speed (there is always some variation)
56k dial up connection = 7kps upload speed
128k isdn connection = 16kps upload speed
512k broadband = 64kps
1.1mb (1,100k) = 137.5kps
2.2mb (2,200k) = 275kps
And that goes on and on right up to the maximum that seems to be regularily available in this country which is 8mb and if you are lucky enough to have that you can download a speeds of up to 1000kb, or 1mb per second!!
To put that into some kind of context, you can get just over 1mb onto a floppy disk, it also works out at about 1mb per minute of MP3 audio.
I'm on 2.2mbps at the moment but am patiently waiting for my upgrade to 8mbps, you will find that the speed will generally be dictated by the speed of the website that you are connected to. The only times I ever max out my connection is when downloading from good websites, microsoft, symantec (norton) that sort of thing or indeed, dare I say it...peer to peer websites :-S