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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.
Correct me if i'm wrong but a connection of this speed is essentially useless due to the fact that the hard drive wouldn't be able to cope with such an influx of data. In addition, I imagine programs such as IE would just curl up and die if you tried to load websites at that speed.
Call me about this again in a few years time..
And how exactly is her computer going to process that much information fast enough to keep up.
Well, it has never been successfully tested.
...but will it blend?
...MILF!