> DSL is distance limited. There is only so many feet of cable that can be between your DSL modem and a piece of equipment called a DSLAM. You've seen those metal, refrigerator-sized boxes around neighborhoods right? Sometimes they're green or gray or whatever...but they are owned by the phone company and that's where all the phone lines for a given section of town are run into. Anyway, the DSLAM's are in those boxes.
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Sometimes it depends how far your computer is from your house. My grandfather wanted to get DSL a while back, but apparently the wires in his place were so old that it was the equivalent of an extra few miles of phone line. I think he just went with cable, rather than tear up the walls and rewire everything.

Also, when we got cable internet they had to run a new physical coaxial cable into our place, because the old coax was too old to support the bandwidth. Then, when our little teething terrier shredded the bit of cable that went through his room, they came and replaced it for free because apparently the coax they put in wasn't good enough for digital cable. He's lucky the outside of the cable is the ground.

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