It is about right

BT program determines your download speed according the up-load speed your network can provide. The ratio of download and up-load speed is around 1. Although the Verizon DSL download speed limit is high (about 300K), but the upload limit is set very low, (maybe less than 50k) to prevent you from use ur PC as a server. with very low up-load speed you can't get high down load in BT