I don't know how much experience you have with running an EQEmu server, but you can certainly run a lag free server with 2MBits. The size of the upload only limits the number of players you can have on your server before connection issues start.
My server runs lag free even with 85 players on and that is only with 1MBit upload. My previous internet upload was listed as 512k, but I got more like 750k and I could handle about 60 characters before there started being connection issues. So, I would imagine that 2Mbits would handle 150 just fine and maybe more. At that point, server hardware is more important to keep stability. Ideally, a separate zone server should probably be used for every 75 players you have, depending on the power of the servers.
I never see any lag on my server since I started using my zone resetters to clear out player ghosts every few hours from popular zones. And I hear that Linux doesn't even have the ghosting problem at all. The only things I notice when my player numbers get really high are that zone crashes happen more often and sometimes player have trouble getting logged into the server.
Maybe if you are talking about EQLive server player numbers, then yes, of course you would want 100Mbits. But I see no reason why any EQEmu servers would even need 10Mbits currently. None are even close to the numbers to require that. Of course, overkill never hurts lol. I definitely wouldn't complain if I had 10MBits upload to match my 10Mbits download.
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