This guy managed to get DSL from twice the range normally available. He did it by playing with a pair of Apple Airport network modules (normal range, about 30m. He got it up to 10km using some high gain directional antennas).
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20010628.html

Wow, thanks for the artcile!

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Manu Narayan