Is it really that high?

I used to play on EQLive during classic/kunark with a dialup connection, which had nowhere near 6KB downstream bandwith. I guess the high number is just an eq specific thing related to datarate throttling?

Just repeated what i had read somewhere in a forum. That how wrong informations spread ... as well as correct one.

It might be very dependant on server load, and zone config. Maybe some (relevant) packet tracing and statistics would be usefull, but i'm not running a public server atm :/