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World's Fastest Net Link 'Used To Dry Laundry'
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.'"
If "drying her laundry" is a euphemism for the mass quantities of porn she is downloading, then I'd be doing the same thing.
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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.
... only old people have 40Gbps internet connection.
Tie two birds together: although they have four wings, they cannot fly. (The blind man)
Brain the size of a planet, access to 1,500 high definition HDTV channels simultaneously, and she wants me to dry her laundry!
.... depressing
Becomes kind of pointless when the internet speed is a few times faster than your hard drive can handle.
Just so we're clear... This is a Gb connection. Gb is is short for Gigabit, emphasis on the bit. Software and hardware are measured in bytes. There are 8 bits in a byte and honestly I think ISPs put the bit rates in instead of the byte rates to confuse the average customer. Currently we have 4 types of drives: IDE/ATA, SATA, SCSI and Solid State. Their standard transfer rates are as follows: IDE/ATA: 133 MBps SATA: 300 MBps SCSI: 320 MBps SSD: 12.5 MBps Now, this connection was 40 Gbps. The actual speed is 5GBps. With those numbers you can see the transfer speeds are too slow for the hard drives to keep up with the faster internet connection. Max speed (given that a person has a SCSI raid) is 320 MBps or 2.5 Gbps, OC-48 is about as close as it gets.