With the rapid proliferation of personal computers and the Internet in US homes, there has been considerable attention given lately to the notion of a home communications network. A common definition given to a home network is one that ties all computers within the home together to share printers, disk drives, files and a single connection to the Internet. According to recent market research from The Yankee Group, 44% of all US households now have at least one computer, and 23% of all US households are actively using the Internet from home. This is tying up consumer phone lines, so 18% of US households now have two or more phone lines. This leads to the area of home networking. The Yankee Group also recently reported that 13.4% of all US Households are currently interested in a home network to link their PCs together, while Dataquest recently projected that the market for home networks for data will grow to $2 billion by 2002.
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