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| wesleysnipez |
Wished I had his connection just think of all music you can d/l in day with it.
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Swedish woman gets world's fastest Internet connection
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STOCKHOLM (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.
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| Sushipunk |
Damn,that would be nice.
The shame is, if it became available in Australia, we would still most likely have a monthly download cap placed on the account. So I'd go through my monthly limit in, what 5 mins? :p
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| _Ocean_Drive_ |
Yeah, that's assuming that the computer at the other end can dish it out that fast to one computer, let alone thousands all at once.
I've got a 50meg ADSL connection here, but have come nowhere near to being able to use it, not even on torrent.
Does anyone know a good website that gives out superfast download speeds for large files so I can test it? |
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| Beat Blog |
| That's awesome, but I don't think many websites would actually be able to give it as fast as you could receive it, would they? |
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| stren |
and she won't be able to fully appreciate the difference from regular connections, how ironic
I wonder how much $ ? |
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| Sushipunk |
| quote: | Originally posted by stren
I wonder how much $ ? |
+1. Any info on that? |
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| JakeC |
| quote: | Originally posted by _Ocean_Drive_
Does anyone know a good website that gives out superfast download speeds for large files so I can test it? |
http://www.openoffice.org
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| Cloudburst |
| Imagine how fast she can read those web based newspapers! :eyes: |
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| Lira |
| quote: | Originally posted by Cloudburst
Imagine how fast she can read those web based newspapers! :eyes: |
:stongue:
| quote: | Originally posted by Beat Blog
That's awesome, but I don't think many websites would actually be able to give it as fast as you could receive it, would they? |
No, that would probably be the new bottleneck. |
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| bas |
Actually the bottleneck is at the ISP not the web servers. They CAN dish it out as fast as you can get it, it's because you're getting it from them as opposed to them giving it to you.
In theory everyone's internet connection could be this fast, ISPs just want to make money :o
Fiber optics > * |
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| Cloudburst |
| quote: | Originally posted by bas
Actually the bottleneck is at the ISP not the web servers. They CAN dish it out as fast as you can get it, it's because you're getting it from them as opposed to them giving it to you.
In theory everyone's internet connection could be this fast, ISPs just want to make money :o
Fiber optics > * |
I read about this in a swedish news paper. To be able to keep up that connection she has to have a $50,000 Cisco router large as washing machine in her house. She said since it got so warm she used to dry her clothes on it. |
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| mezzir |
| quote: | Originally posted by wesleysnipez
Wished I had his connection just think of all music you can d/l in day with it. |
I thought about it. I'd say....all of it. |
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