Slashdot Mirror
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.
The article doesn't say that but while downloads speeds keep increasing I still long to have 1+ Mbps upload speeds with low latency. I have all the computing power I need at home but still find pay for an external web account because the link to my house would become saturated if anyone tried to view my vacation pics. It's just not the full-on internet I imagine when most users are downloaders only.