I think this is fucking incredible.
I get 3 x faster speeds on my broadband at home than I do at work.
We are supposed to be subscribing to the proverbial "up to" 8mb service at work , but when I ran the speedtest I got 260 to 270 kbps download speed.
3 things. Firstly as Slick_Beef points out you need to be the only one using it to get an accurate reading.
Secondly, Upload speed is usually about an 8th of your download speed.
Thirdly, and I know you didn't say this but worth pointing out anyway, these are speeds measured in Megabits not Megabytes - that's eight times smaller than a Megabyte. To put it into context, a 1 Megabyte is 1 million characters of text, a Megabit is 125,000 (although Megabit is usually used as a measurement of speed as in Megabits per second).
Basically 8Mbps (download) connection is likely to only have 1Mbps upload speed associated with it, that's not including contention with others doing the same who are sharing the same kit at the your local exchange which will bring it down, also take into account others sharing the same connection in the office who are using it and that's probably not too bad.
Patronising? Who? Me?
Yeah, course I am mate . . .