Verizon's DSL ads highlight the need for speed

NEW YORK — It's hard to imagine with all the buzz about high-speed broadband and the new media forms it enables, such as video on the Web, that about 32% of home computers still access the Internet via an old-fashioned, pokey, dial-up modem.

That's shrinking fast, though. The number of active broadband users at home was 95.5 million as of February, up 28% from a year earlier, according to Nielsen/NetRatings. And everyone from phone companies to cable operators is

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