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World's Fastest Net Link 'Used To Dry Laundry'

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the it-gets-pretty-hot-in-there dept.

praps writes "Last summer a 75-year-old woman from central Sweden became the envy of the IT world with her scorching 40Gbps internet connection. 1,500 simultaneous HDTV channels or a whole high definition DVD downloaded in two seconds were hers for the taking. Now Sigbritt Löthberg could soon be treated to an incredible 100 Gbps link — but it may not be put to great use. According to the head of the ultra-fast fiber connection project, Sigbritt mostly used the gear 'to dry her laundry.'"

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  1. bandwidth by 68030 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Is this really that big of a surprise? I seem to recall from the original story that prior to this she had never even owned a computer.

    I've never owned a space station, but I imagine if I suddenly came into control of one, I wouldn't get it put to as much use as someone with a clue.

  2. Oh Noes Broadband by ChadAmberg · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Every time I hear everyone whining about "broadband adoption rates" I just think that they don't get it.
    Lots of people don't want broadband.
    Lots of people don't even care about Internet access.
    Sure it would be nice to have availability everywhere, but when the measurement is of how many people use broadband, that doesn't say much of anything.

    1. Re:Oh Noes Broadband by zappepcs · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Well, the LOTS of people that you are talking about had ancestors that didn't care about cars, or even want cars. Times change. 40GB/s is a good rate for downloading while watching HDTV etc.Some people never saw the usefulness of a computer in the home either.. they too were wrong.

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  3. Re:Hey! by kalirion · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Becomes kind of pointless when the internet speed is a few times faster than your hard drive can handle.

  4. April Fool? by djsmeg · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Isn't this story a day early for April Fool's Day?

  5. Re:Also by davidkv · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This isn't to prove how fast connections can be put in the home cheaply. It's to prove how you can build really fast connections (think backbones and such) way cheaper than before.
    That makes it really useful, actually.

  6. April Fool's Day came in March this year by 14erCleaner · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I think this story arrived a day early.

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  7. Re:First Post ? by sumdumass · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I can think of at least 4 stories that made the front page in the last week or so that should have been set here instead of the category they where in.

    I really didn't even know this part of the site existed, or at least I didn't know it existed in this state. It is horrible.

    Who is the retarded monkey responsible for this crap? Surely this has to be a mistake. It looks like the bastard child of the anything that wants to die and anyone stupid enough to join it. It this concept of "no news" being news and page layout that can't even render the same in different browsers (FF, IE6, and old mozilla)continues, I think a lot of people will simply not come around. I would probably be one of them but I suspect that doesn't matter much.