Originally Posted by NoWhErE

Depending on your content (if its mostly black video, when you compress it, your file will be ultra small for example), you can compress it at a bitrate of 650 to 800 to get a good file size without too much of a sacrifice in quality.

Anything over a 1000 kbps is overkill for your bandwidth. The quality will look great, but the improvement in image quality over a 1000 kpbs is barely noticeable.
Well, hope that helped out