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Time Warner Cable's Columbus division is joining a growing roster of Internet service providers selling home computer networking services to customers.
The cable vendor, through its Road Runner high-speed service, launched its networking option this month.
"One of the things we looked at is households that have a broadband connection today; roughly 66 percent of them nationwide have multiple PCs in the household," said Dave Tabata, Time Warner's Road Runner marketing manager. "There are more and more folks that need that ability to connect more than one PC, especially as PC costs come down."
Home networking, in essence, allows several personal computers in a house to communicate with each other, similar to the way computers are linked in a business. Home networks allow computers to share a...