No idea, probably fast DSL since he lives in Berlin...
I was on that board for 6 years and usually it was no slower than this one.
Admittedly, maybe once a year the board was gone for a few hours or even a day when hardware had to be replaced :D
Here they offer fiber connections now (200Mbps down, 10Mbps up guaranteed) for about 50€/month. They also offer 1Gbps connections (both up and down) for 250€/month, but who can afford that... ;P