The Register Its latest figures show that 77.4m people in the US used a dial-up connection from home in December - down 10 per cent on the previous year. By comparison, 33.6m - an annual increase of almost 60 per cent - used a broadband connection from home to access the Net.

Well, welcome broadband...Now that we all have routers, wireless routers, and homeplug stuff...let's get some devices to use this bandwidth. What's next radios playing web radio? Or devices to let you subscribe to music databases on the internet? Movies on demand, as in finally? Since we will be at critical mass shortly it would make sense.