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75 year old woman has world's fastest broadband
The Local - Sweden ^
| Published: 12th July 2007 11:07 CET
Posted on 07/13/2007 12:29:04 AM PDT by Swordmaker
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To: goldstategop
A T1 broadband connection for the price of DSL? I don't believe it. Actually, most of the civilized world has much better broadband than we do here in the US.
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posted on
07/13/2007 6:33:47 AM PDT
by
zeugma
(Don't Want illegal Alien Amnesty? Call 800-417-7666)
To: Thermalseeker
What's funny to me here is 10 years ago only telecomtechnogeeks like me even knew what a T1 was. Now, everybody wants a T1 in their living room.....yeah, but 10 years ago, the real telecomtechnogeeks wanted an OC3.
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posted on
07/13/2007 6:42:27 AM PDT
by
zeugma
(Don't Want illegal Alien Amnesty? Call 800-417-7666)
To: Swordmaker
HILARIOUS!
But the funniest line was:
“...and five Pakistani techs were dragged into their telephones by the suction when panicked Karlstad Stadsnät operators called tech support for help.”
63
posted on
07/13/2007 6:44:26 AM PDT
by
kitkat
(I refuse to let the DUers chase me off FR.)
To: roaddog727
You missed it.... Not 4 GBPS - order of magnitude greater.... 40 GBPS. No, didn't. It's 40 gigaBITS per second... divide by ten to get the real throughput in gigaBYTES.
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posted on
07/13/2007 6:57:56 AM PDT
by
Swordmaker
(Remember, the proper pronunciation of IE is "AAAAIIIIIEEEEEEE)
To: Swordmaker
(Remember, the proper pronunciation of IE is “AAAAIIIIIEEEEEEE)
I’m sure you are aware that this is the yell of a very happy CAJUN. I love gumbo.
65
posted on
07/13/2007 6:59:24 AM PDT
by
CHEE
(Shoot low, they're crawling.)
To: kitkat
HILARIOUS! >Blush<
Thanks.
66
posted on
07/13/2007 7:00:13 AM PDT
by
Swordmaker
(Remember, the proper pronunciation of IE is "AAAAIIIIIEEEEEEE)
To: glock rocks; Pete-R-Bilt; SouthTexas
As the Road Runner says...Beep Beep
67
posted on
07/13/2007 7:01:09 AM PDT
by
tubebender
(Large reward for person offering leads to my missing tag lines...)
To: Swordmaker
“divide by ten to get the real throughput in gigaBYTES.”
Actually devide by 8, not 10. but agreed.
8 bits to the byte.
68
posted on
07/13/2007 7:03:34 AM PDT
by
roaddog727
(BS does not get bridges built)
To: Swordmaker
"The most difficult part of the whole project was installing Windows on Sigbritt's PC," said Jonsson.
Get Root !
69
posted on
07/13/2007 7:06:50 AM PDT
by
Uri’el-2012
(you shall know that I, YHvH, your Savior, and your Redeemer, am the Elohim of Ya'aqob. Isaiah 60:16)
To: zeugma
yeah, but 10 years ago, the real telecomtechnogeeks wanted an OC3. True, and we started to see optical interfaces about 10 years ago in the cellular world, but most of the central office equipment providers at the time weren't making a lot of switching equipment that would interface with fiber. So, converters were required and it all wound up going back to copper anyway.
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posted on
07/13/2007 7:09:07 AM PDT
by
Thermalseeker
(Made in China: Treat those three words like a warning label)
To: goldstategop
A T1 broadband connection for the price of DSL? I don't believe it. I basically have a "T1" with my current DSL connection. I get 1.5Mbps download, 384Kbps upload. You probably do too.
Hell, the DS3 circuits at the office are only about 45Mbps each.
I don't know what you'd call this link that she's got!
71
posted on
07/13/2007 7:11:32 AM PDT
by
Recovering Hermit
(There's another old saying Senator..."Don't piss down my back and tell me it's raining.")
To: tubebender
But I c a n ' t r e a d a n y f a s t e r.
;)
To: Swordmaker
Mac Ping ListThis doesn't say anything about the Mac, or even AAPL or any of its products. But it does say that "The most difficult part of the whole project was installing Windows on Sigbritt's PC."
73
posted on
07/13/2007 7:13:49 AM PDT
by
conservatism_IS_compassion
(The idea around which liberalism coheres is that NOTHING actually matters except PR.)
To: Swordmaker
"Peter! PETER! Get over here right away!!!! My modem sprung a leak, and my house is full of bits, and now the neighbor's car has washed away. YOU GET OVER HERE NOW!!!!"
74
posted on
07/13/2007 7:14:47 AM PDT
by
r9etb
To: Swordmaker
Damn you! Not only did you beat me to the joke, but you made it better. Note to self: read thread before posting.
75
posted on
07/13/2007 7:17:49 AM PDT
by
r9etb
To: roaddog727
divide by ten to get the real throughput in gigaBYTES. Actually devide by 8, not 10. but agreed.
8 bits to the byte.
For storage, that's true. For serial transmission, though, each byte requires a 'start' bit and a 'stop' bit. It's long been a common practice to divide by 10 rather than 8 to convert a serial bit rate to a byte transfer rate.
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posted on
07/13/2007 7:19:12 AM PDT
by
Bob
To: Swordmaker
Let’s see...
A T1 is 1.544 Mb/s, and this lady’s connections is 40Gb/s, which is appx. the equivilent of 20 OC48s. You could download enough to fill a Terabyte hard drive in about 4 minutes.
The mind reels!
77
posted on
07/13/2007 7:23:34 AM PDT
by
Cymbaline
(I repeat myself when under stress I repeat myself when under stress I repeat myself when under stres)
To: Thermalseeker
Things have changed a bit. I’m working for a major cell carrier right now, and I’ve got dozens of OC-3s at my disposal. The far end is still cell sites, though. Bell has improved on their T1 testing ability, although the CWA still sucks. Probably the same grizzled old farts you used to work with.
78
posted on
07/13/2007 7:34:18 AM PDT
by
Cymbaline
(I repeat myself when under stress I repeat myself when under stress I repeat myself when under stres)
To: Thermalseeker
It’s all optical now. Copper is becoming obsolete.
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posted on
07/13/2007 7:35:50 AM PDT
by
Cymbaline
(I repeat myself when under stress I repeat myself when under stress I repeat myself when under stres)
To: Marie
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