I only pay $26 for SBC DSL.
Doose, the reaons why cable is so much faster is cuz there is one connection allowed to a given area and then however many users decide ot use it, the bandwidth is devided between them. Since you are probably one on the only users, the speed is lightning fast. If you had more users it would be alot slower.
DSL just runs off you phone line so there's no division of bandwidth, but there is a ceiling on the speed you can get. And obviously having a hub changes things too.
This may have changed since I set up my internet like 2 years ago... actually, knowing the way technology advances, it probably has.... but that's the way my computer whiz friend explained it to me.