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Posted on 07/13/2007 12:29:04 AM PDT by Swordmaker
A 75 year old woman from Karlstad in central Sweden has been thrust into the IT history books - with the world's fastest internet connection.
Sigbritt Löthberg's home has been supplied with a blistering 40 Gigabits per second connection, many thousands of times faster than the average residential link and the first time ever that a home user has experienced such a high speed.
But Sigbritt, who had never had a computer until now, is no ordinary 75 year old. She is the mother of Swedish internet legend Peter Löthberg who, along with Karlstad Stadsnät, the local council's network arm, has arranged the connection.
"This is more than just a demonstration," said network boss Hafsteinn Jonsson.
"As a network owner we're trying to persuade internet operators to invest in faster connections. And Peter Löthberg wanted to show how you can build a low price, high capacity line over long distances," he told The Local.
Sigbritt will now be able to enjoy 1,500 high definition HDTV channels simultaneously. Or, if there is nothing worth watching there, she will be able to download a full high definition DVD in just two seconds.
The secret behind Sigbritt's ultra-fast connection is a new modulation technique which allows data to be transferred directly between two routers up to 2,000 kilometres apart, with no intermediary transponders.
According to Karlstad Stadsnät the distance is, in theory, unlimited - there is no data loss as long as the fibre is in place.
"I want to show that there are other methods than the old fashioned ways such as copper wires and radio, which lack the possibilities that fibre has," said Peter Löthberg, who now works at Cisco.
Cisco contributed to the project but the point, said Hafsteinn Jonsson, is that fibre technology makes such high speed connections technically and commercially viable.
"The most difficult part of the whole project was installing Windows on Sigbritt's PC," said Jonsson.
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You would still have to wait on slow servers.
Indeed. Give me fiber or give me death(ly slow connection speeds)!
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Not with Torrent. Just download simultaneously from 40,000 other servers.
A T1 connection is a snail compared to a jet fighter in comparison to this connection...
I turned them down because their email servers lost about 10% of our emails when I used them.
The article says *40* Gigs per second.
I only have a 37 Gig hard drive.
I feel so small...
I mean, come on, just because you got gigabite humongus, doesn't mean you rule the world.
Sheeesh, maybe Sigbritt just wants a better pair of shoes.
Well, God Bless her, whatever floats her boat.
My name is MaxMax and I am on a lowly 1-mb line.
Will you marry me?
Sincerely,
MaxMax.
PS,
my number is (555) Lub-Choo. /wink /wink
Lub-Choo-Long-Time.
Neener neener! :)
That's Gigabits per second... divide by 10 to get approximate Gigabytes per second (8 bit word, plus start and stop bits).
They may have meant gigabytes, who knows. Anyway it would be cool to be able to download an entire encylopedia in one second.
that her advertised speed - I'll bet she actually gets a lot lower
That's it...I declare myself a charity case, so I can have a pipeline like Granny Lothberg!
Connections speeds are always listed in bits per second... not bytes per second.
Meanwhile I plug along with Comcast’s so-called broadband offering, paying over $60/month. It’s a great pity that the US isn’t leading the way in terms of affordable broadband access.
I want to know where she's going to put all those bits and bytes... She'd need a lot of very fast RAM to buffer the bandwidth before storing it...
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