Randall Posted July 13, 2007 Share Posted July 13, 2007 75-year-old gets world's speediest broadband connection By Jose Vilches, TechSpot.com Published: July 13, 2007, 1:26 PM EST While the US lags behind other nations in terms of broadband speeds, Sigbritt Löthberg, a 75-year-old Swedish woman has blown the whole world away by getting a massive 40Gbps connection to her house. She is now able to enjoy 1,500 high-definition HDTV channels simultaneously, or download full high-definition DVDs in just two seconds. Of course, she is the mother of Peter Löthberg, a pioneer in the world of fiber-optic networking for Cisco, who arranged the connection along with the local council's network department as a demonstration to persuade ISPs to invest in faster connections. "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 fiber has," said Peter Löthberg. The ultra-fast connection speed has been achieved by a new modulation technique which allows data to be transferred directly between two routers up to 2,000-kilometers apart with no intermediary transponders. This technology would purportedly allow operators to quickly and economically upgrade their network capacity to meet the growing bandwidth demands. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muck Posted July 13, 2007 Share Posted July 13, 2007 That's one fast woman! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Country Posted July 13, 2007 Share Posted July 13, 2007 That would so kick azz..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Irish Doggy Posted July 13, 2007 Share Posted July 13, 2007 I might finally be able to download all the pron from the internets. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ursa Majoris Posted July 13, 2007 Share Posted July 13, 2007 Interesting. Assuming the full speed of 40 Gbps, that's 5 GBps, which allows direct comparison with a hard drive (D/L speed is measured in bits, HD size in bytes - 1 byte is 8 bits). Thus, a user with a 250 GB non-system empty hard drive could completely fill it in 50 seconds with this 5 GBps connection. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaP'N GRuNGe Posted July 13, 2007 Share Posted July 13, 2007 Yeah, but you'd still have to deal with the flood control here. If not, imagine how fast you could build up your post count. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoJoTheWebToedBoy Posted July 13, 2007 Share Posted July 13, 2007 Interesting. Assuming the full speed of 40 Gbps, that's 5 GBps, which allows direct comparison with a hard drive (D/L speed is measured in bits, HD size in bytes - 1 byte is 8 bits). Thus, a user with a 250 GB non-system empty hard drive could completely fill it in 50 seconds with this 5 GBps connection. Oooooooooo Pants getting tight..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NSab Posted July 13, 2007 Share Posted July 13, 2007 Lucky old broad! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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