Recently my 8-year old Pismo finally broke, its dial up modem
refuses to work. Everything else is okay on it however.

I am very reluctant to junk the old Mac.

Fixing/replacing its old modem may not be feasible, or so I am
told by several tech' support people.

(the old "Spring" modem that Mac model uses may no longer
be available as a spare part)

My DSL questions
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1) Is the Macs internal dial-up modem needed for DSL?

2) Can I use ANY of my six Macs with DSL, or is DSL
geared for only one specific Mac?

3) I live in a very rural location, 40 miles from the
nearest city; does DSL speed suffer in rural locations?

With dialup, I am used to very slow download speeds.
It takes 6 minutes for me to download a one GB file.

What is the worst-case speed increase I can expect with DSL.

Anyone care to guess.

Mark-