Posted on 07/19/2007 7:18:41 PM PDT by Flavius
STOCKHOLM, Sweden - 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. ADVERTISEMENT
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.
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LOLLOTFLHHO
little ole lady laying on the floor laughing her heiny off
If, when I get up in the morning and look in the mirror - if someone’s in there - I call it a good day.
After that you should read the obituaries. See if you out lived someone you don’t like.
;-)
“Didn’t know you could write to disk at 20G/second.”
Most computers can’t push their 100 mb (point-1 G) network connection to its limit for more than a few seconds — the hard drive isn’t fast enough.
Many newer computers have a 1G/sec network connection, but for the most part, no one notices any speed difference over their network from the previous point-1G/sec card. Assuming that the network card was 1G/sec, I’m wondering how this user knew she was getting all of that speed?
This story doesn’t make sense, another in a long line of superspeed stories by people who want the gov’t to help them run fiber to your house.
It’s fun to think about a full fiber connection, but you’re exactly right. Computers are no where close to being able to fully utilize a connection that fast.
Maybe (MAYBE) once we’re using crystal drives, quantum boards and bioware processors could we use fiber.
I’ve got a 4Mb (4 million bits = 500 thousand bytes, for you rio linda people) connection right now and I have to work really hard to even use that much at once.
Sounds like she's sending video, not downloading it.
“Sounds like she’s sending video, not downloading it.”
She’s not sending it with any conventional computer, that’s for sure. Her network card is, at best, only good for 1 G/sec, and her hard drives won’t fill that up for more than a few seconds ‘cause the hard drive is too slow.
Help me out here.
Doesn't the computer itself have to be superfast to keep up with the transfer rate?
Can any hard drive save that fast?
Just asking.
(whining from dial-up) I want one....... :(
According to the Speakeasy speed test I run on my cable connection I’m getting around 4800+ -kbps download and about 490 + - uploads.
I just got back from Carmel, Ca. and my friends connection was getting between 23,000 and a couple of times 29,000 kbps download and 1200 to 1500+ - uploads. The test was over before you could say boo! He’s paying less than I am for the connection.
Pretty much the same results for the Speedtest.net test also.
Whats going on? P.S., I hate Charter. He has ComCast in Carmel.
Sounds like he has a ... T3? It’s been a couple years since I had the different terms memorized. One of the connections out there (rare) is 45Mbs which could max out the speed test’s bandwidth and result in that rather weird number.
A single drive that this grandmother probably has? No way in hell.
Now... a farm of computers with mutual striped drives and a customized router to spread the internet connection on the fly across the boxes (which would go straight out of my league)... Yes. *drool*
The “movie in 2 seconds” is the “on paper” speed that she’s getting, or just plain journalistic malpractice referring to a preview as a full length movie. Reality won’t be allowing this for quite some time.
She’s running SCSI over the Internet.
:^)
You can if you have enough disks and stripe it. Takes a lot of disks though ;-)
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.
Well, duh. Two routers directly connected. She might have a huge pipeline on her end, but the hosts servers are not going to send her data at that rate.
This is clearly someone seeking their 15 minutes of fame.
I don’t think he’s got a T1 or T3 or anything like that. He wouldn’t pay for it or know what he had. It’s just a fast but ordinary cable and computer that he uses for his business.
Maybe I should check out ComCast site to see.
Flavius is probably on a dial-up connection.
so negatively addicting...the darkside of the internet.
I have 512kb DSL. When I look at the actual download speeds I get I consider anything over 100 good.
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