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I live out in Rural, and the only DSL speed available to me is 1.5Mb/s. In town they have 7Mb/s, but not here.

Where does that speed limit come from? Is it the wiring we put in the street? Or the TELCO's equipment at the CO?

is it something we could convince them to upgrade?

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Welcome to the world of telecommunications engineering! As someone has already noted, it isn't really within the purview of workstation computer software and hardware. Fortunately, more than one StackExchange site exists. – JdeBP Dec 24 '11 at 4:06

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The two likeliest possibilities are:

  1. Distance from the CO - this FAQ from DSLReports.com has some dated information that might still be useful as a rule of thumb.
  2. The DSL provider has decided to cap the speed for rural customers and not for the folks in town.

My guess is that distance is probably a bigger factor, since rural customers are probably farther away from the CO than customers in town.

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Maybe the only thing that is limiting your connection is the startup software sended by your ISP to your modem, in my country even rural area get the 10 Mbs connection, so I guess you have the 7Mb/s on cable, but is shaped by your ISP on your modem. Only a hack can win this kind of thing. (I'm NOT advising you to do this anyway... =D )

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Or maybe you could convince them to sell this plan to your area. Ya, truth hurts. – H_7 Mar 24 '12 at 0:13

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