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World's Fastest Broadband Connection — 40 Gbps
paulraps writes "A 75-year-old woman from Karlstad in central Sweden has been given a scorching 40 Gbps internet connection — the fastest residential connection anywhere in the world. Sigbritt Löthberg is the mother of Swedish internet guru Peter Löthberg, who is using his mother to prove that fiber networks can deliver a cost-effective, ultra-fast connection. Sigbritt, who has never owned a computer before, can now watch 1,500 HDTV channels simultaneously or download a whole high definition DVD in two seconds. Apparently 'the hardest part of the whole project was installing Windows on Sigbritt's PC.'" An article in Press Esc notes an analyst study of the increasing demand for fiber-to-the-home in Europe.
"RIAA arrests 75 year old woman in sweden for file-sharing over her 40GBPS connection. Damages are estimated in the billions."
Oh, she will, will she? And this content comes from where, exactly?
PirateBay, of course. One of Sweden's national treasures.
Trolling is a art,
Not a problem. Her 10/100 Ethernet nic goes up to 11.
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Once she's downloaded every season of "Murder, She Wrote", will she ever use the connection again?
Imagine the beowulf cluster required to do that!!
Oh yea. I'm drooling......
At 1 HD-DVD every 2 seconds she is the PirateBay. Now that's who he should have given the connection to. I doubt her secret lutefisk recipe is going to need quite that much bandwidth.
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Anyone have her phone number? I hear she has a wonderful personality and huge "assets". I have no shame when it comes to that kind of bandwidth.
Or maybe I can just live in her basement, a change of scenery would do me good. Besides Mom is always nagging at me to get out of the basement and go see the world.
Don't you worry. As usual comcast, verizon and other telco will figure out how to deliver this bandwidth in the year 3094. By then servers should handle it.
40 Gbps? Wow, sign me up for this!
Meh, on second thought it doesn't sound worth the effort.
Of course if she's anything like my 71 year-old Mom it would mean she could fall asleep in from of 1,500 HDTV channels simultaneously.
That's 11/111/1111/11111 Ethernet for you, mister.
True confidence comes not from realising you are as good as your peers, but that your peers are as bad as you are.
Yeah, but she only gets 20 Gb/s upload speed. Damn ISP's and their fancy marketing lingo.
She's been waiting 75 years for a connection fast enough.
(ducks)
I doubt her secret lutefisk recipe is going to need quite that much bandwidth.
No, but her new TV program might
What?
In other news, a 75 year old woman was killed earlier today when the disk platters from her computer's hard drive flew out of the case, proceeding through her, and her little dog too. Many analysts expect the grieving family to sue Google, the owners of the interwebernet, for the emotional grief caused by the blazing download rates.
Stop the Slashdot effect! Don't read the articles!
I didn't think the house band in Hell would play this badly.
...she says the Microsoft Internet is down again even with that forty jiggle-bite thingy you installed.
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