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Who's Online: Internet User Demographics
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As of April 2012, 66% of American adults have a high-speed broadband connection at home. Learn more about who's online with our internet user demographics table and a chart of overall internet adoption over time.

For more information about home broadband adoption, you can browse our recent broadband research, Scan this cheat sheet to all our brodband info, or click here to download an Excel spreadsheet containing the data from the chart below.

The above chart displays information about internet users (age 18 and older). For information about internet adoption trends among American teens (ages 12-17), please see our teen trend charts.

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