Yeah, DSL speed depends upon how close you are to the central hub. The maximum distance where I used to live was 15,000 ft, and my residence was 15,000 ft from the hub, so DSL barely functioned for me. (I was using cable but wanted to get a DSL connection for redundancy).
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