Broadband growth changes lifestyles

Fast connections hit 53 percent of online households

You could say Mark Suhre is a believer in broadband.

When he built his five-bedroom, three-story home in Maryland near the Chesapeake Bay, Suhre made sure each room had its own high-speed network jack. Wireless access points extended the Internet’s reach to the swimming pool.

Most evenings, the whole family is online at once: Suhre wrapping up work as a computer network engineer; his wife, Terri, preparing school lessons or ordering from an e-tailer; his teenage sons Gary, Josh and Brandon playing online video games, instant messaging with friends, maybe even researching homework.

The Suhres’ lives, online and off, have been transformed by their broadband connection.

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