U.S. Home Internet Access up to 75%

waytoomuchcoffee writes "Over 200 million U.S. residents now have access to the internet at home, or 3/4 of the U.S. population. This is quite a jump, as only 51% of U.S. homes had access to the internet in August of 2000. Interestingly, among age/gender groups, internet access is highest among females 35-54."

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[cda]

Since I'm from Romania here we see this like:

go to US plug your cable in the wall and the broadbad flows.

Now this is something I envy you for. Low rate decent speed access. Since here a 64/128 kbit goes around $100-$150 and the minimum wage is around $75 monthly ... you do the math.

But at least we cand get some online clients from US. The more ... the best

Re:...internet access is highest among females 35-

[Anonymous Coward]

Two things that may possibly affect this figure...
1. Most registration forms have a dropdown with female as the first entry(alphabetical order).
2. What does a null date default to? 12/31/1969, just about 35 years ago.

How many fake/minimally filled in registrations have you filled out lately?

Re:...internet access is highest among females 35-

[Lord Ender]

Actually, the reason is probably because the men are smart enough to share their home internet connections between all of their roommates (or even neighbors) with NAT and home networking or WiFi. So they only get counted as one person. But the girls are the ones that buy the multiple IP addresses and all that from the cable company. I'm not trying to be insulting. In my college town, it is only the girls' houses that pay to have more than one computer connected.