I'm south of Tacoma out toward Mt Rainier in the boonies and my modem gets 44 - 48 kb/sec. How come you get such low speed up there?
It's not where you are, but where you are in relation to (exchange? repeater? station?). When I say I'm at the end of a long range of copper (telephone wire) I mean it. A friend who used to work in telephony tells me that we live at just about the maximum range.