My Verizon DSL is peaking at about 1 mbit/s: http://imgur.com/a/2yXOT . Our plan should be providing 1.1-15. Given that per youtube.com/my_speed, most people on my ISP are getting much better speeds I'm wondering if it's due to my setup. I can't imagine what could be wrong though: it's a Linksys WRT54G running latest version of Tomato firmware, I'm on a MacBook Air.
Verizon has several DSL plans (one up to 1.5 Mb/s, and then 3 and 7 or 15). In some areas 7 and up are simply unavailable, but I didn't hear that 3 wasn't an option. Try contacting Verizon about it.
