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It's always great to be an Internet user, but after the Federal Communications Commission released a report called Measuring Broadband America at this month's meeting, it's looking even better.

The annual report, published first in August 2011, said in its second edition that broadband speeds for several companies has risen in the past year, in some cases quite dramatically.

Zach White

A USA Today analysis found that the average speed increased from 87 percent of the advertised speeds to 96 percent since last year.

The biggest leap was for Cablevision, who bought our local provider Bresnan,...