Old lady has worlds fastest residential internet connection.

[THE BOUNCER]

http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/07/20/s....ap/index.html


STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) -- She is a latecomer to the information superhighway, but 75-year-old Sigbritt Lothberg is now cruising the Internet with a dizzying speed.

Lothberg's 40 gigabits-per-second fiber-optic connection in Karlstad is believed to be the fastest residential uplink in the world, Karlstad city officials said.

In less than 2 seconds, Lothberg can download a full-length movie on her home computer -- many thousand times faster than most residential connections, said Hafsteinn Jonsson, head of the Karlstad city network unit.

Jonsson and Lothberg's son, Peter, worked together to install the connection.

The speed is reached using a new modulation technique that allows the sending of data between two routers placed up to 1,240 miles apart, without any transponders in between, Jonsson said.

"We wanted to show that that there are no limitations to Internet speed," he said.

Peter Lothberg, who is a networking expert, said he wanted to demonstrate the new technology while providing a computer link for his mother.

"She's a brand new Internet user," Lothberg said by phone from California, where he lives. "She didn't even have a computer before."

His mother isn't exactly making the most of her high-speed connection. She only uses it to read Web-based newspapers.

[babyblues]

OMG!! 40 GIG per second?!?! That's just insane. Goddamn, I would have so many hard drives full if I had an internet connection that fast.

[THE BOUNCER]

Originally Posted by babyblues

I would have so many hard drives full of porn if I had an internet connection that fast.

:nerdnew:

[blm]

I'm curious how he got the bandwidth from the internet. Did he somehow get the opportunity for his 'testing ' purposes to tap into an open pipe in Tier 1 or the backbone of the internet or what? To purchase that kind of bandwidth would cost tens of thousands (I would venture to guess).

[rado]

Originally Posted by babyblues

OMG!! 40 GIG per second?!?! That's just insane. Goddamn, I would have so many hard drives full if I had an internet connection that fast.

Perv

[rado]

Originally Posted by blm

I'm curious how he got the bandwidth from the internet. Did he somehow get the opportunity for his 'testing ' purposes to tap into an open pipe in Tier 1 or the backbone of the internet or what? To purchase that kind of bandwidth would cost tens of thousands (I would venture to guess).

He has "connections"

[babyblues]

Originally Posted by THE BOUNCER

:nerdnew:

Yes, there's alot of it out there and it's not going to download itself.

[babyblues]

Originally Posted by rado

Perv

Actually, I download TV shows and at 350 meg apiece, they fill up a hard drive pretty fast. An entire season of some shows adds up to 7 gigs. Suck lemons, bitch.

[rado]

Originally Posted by babyblues

Actually, I download TV shows and at 350 meg apiece, they fill up a hard drive pretty fast. An entire season of some shows adds up to 7 gigs. Suck lemons, bitch.

You fucking nerd Now STFU and choke on your mac & cheese you eat while watching Mork and Mindy

[THE BOUNCER]

ok rado, time to calm down just a little bit.

[rado]

Originally Posted by THE BOUNCER

ok rado, time to calm down just a little bit.

pendejo