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by Game_Ender 5435 days ago
DSL is not good competition for any reasonable cable internet service. In Pittsburgh Comcast's $60 a month service is 5 times the speed of the $25 a month 1-3 mbps DSL service offered by Verizon DSL. The DSL connection is barely enough for reasonable quality video streaming, but it's not enough if you want to have two people use pipe at the same time. FIOS does provide decent competition but it's availability is limited.
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You can get two lines and bond them.
That's about as useful as taking two slices of bread, gluing them together, and declaring the result a complete bakery. You'd have to get ten bonded DSL lines to compare with the speed of a cable modem in my area.