75-year-old likely set Internet speed record

[Micah 16]

Even though she is a latecomer to the Internet, Sigbritt Lothberg (a Swede) who is 75 years of age likely has the world's fastest home uplink! She has a 40 gigabit-per-second fiber-optic connection.  In less than 2 seconds, she can download a full-length movie on her home computer which is many thousand times faster than most residential connections. Her son, Peter, and Hafsteinn Jonsson (head of the Karlstad city network unit) worked together to install the connection. Jonsson wanted to prove "there are no limitations to Internet speed."



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[outriderdriver 4]

up to the speed of light* of course. lucky lady

[Firebird 40]

His mother isn't exactly making the most of her high-speed connection. She only uses it to read Web-based newspapers.quote>

Man, that connections way to fast .

Just think how much fun that lady's having.

[Bookworm 1]

Wow. Just... wow. I have got to move to Sweden and piggyback on that connection...

[IDS2 3,429]

LUCKY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Seriously, I really really really want that connection

[John94538 0]

With that connection, ST would load way way faster lol.

[DarkEldar 6]

imagine how much bandwith you would waste fastest net connection ever was 14 tb a second

[njdevi66 12]

Goes to show how much our internet providers screw us.

[toxicpiano 125]

ARGH I WANT A CONNECTION LIKE THAT! And Mr njdevi I agree.

[dralin321 0]

AWWWWWWWW That is not fair! I want to move to Sweden now.

[homeandaway 1]

Originally posted by: dralin321 AWWWWWWWW That is not fair! I want to move to Sweden now.quote>

 

me 2! - it would be way easier and i wouldnt stress out so much!

[topcliff 1]

Forget moving to Sweden, I'm gonna marry her! Who cares if she's decades older than me? Leonardo

[BIWDC 2,296]

Now that's an internet connection.

[Something_started 5]

oh well, be glad you have broad band. i'm stuck here running at a turtle spead of 44k (that is what the pop up says when i dial in) but half the time it is only...say.... 5k, and shes on what? 40Gbs!

that is un real. the average usb/flash drive (high speed ones too) arn't even 1/900th the speed. that woman is flying.

40gigs? that is unbalivable. i thought harddrives cant even store stuff that fast! how do i subscribe to this!

[Mikeaut1 261]

God and I thought my speed was fast. That's incredible!

[Albatross Domain 2]

Comcast might as well go outta business...

[hamsterTK 93]

AFAIK most normal connections can also go blazing fast, but many service providers and broadband modems limit the speed for various reasons, and also that hacking the devices to go really fast is either breaking the terms of service or a violation of the law, probably both.

I dont know if this true, one of my friends told me about it

[The_Dalai_Llama 15]

Meanwhile... some poor chumps are still using AOL's dial-up service... and I use the word "service" loosely.

[CDI_spy 6]

LOL!!!  This is an amazing story...

Just goes to show you where our technology is going... 40 gigs a sec will be the standard in a few years... broadband will be the dialup of tomorrow, and dialup will be non-existent, for lack of a funnier way to put it...

[crazyyaya 4]

POWER TO THE ELDERLY!!

[simoplis_mayor 3]

That's just amazing what i would give for a connection like that.

[MayorTim 16]

40gbps? I wish I had that..

[Amc_Dsb 0]

i have 41gbps

[Goldfish4209 9]

That would be no use. There are only a handful, if any servers in the world that have connections that fast. I'm perfectly happy with 10Mbps. Could be faster, but I'm ok.

Amc_Dsb: Who do you think you're fooling?

[hym 358]

Originally posted by: hamsterTK AFAIK most normal connections can also go blazing fast, but many service providers and broadband modems limit the speed for various reasons, and also that hacking the devices to go really fast is either breaking the terms of service or a violation of the law, probably both.

I dont know if this true, one of my friends told me about itquote>

It is actually true, however, I don't think I'd risk up to 25 years in prison for it.

Also, the odds of us getting connections that fast in the next few years is very low.  The Internet2 consortium made massive headlines when it achieved a paltry 20Gbps, and they only ran that connection for a few minutes because it they had to use 5 major university networks and it literally cost over $1 million an hour to run.

[Rymac91 15]

how cow that's fast! that's 4444.44 times faster then my internet connection!

And on the other topic of bandwidth caps, yes they limit the speed of our internet connections intentionally, usually so that all the people connected to a single neighborhood hub wont have more then another and so it doesn't overload it.

Think of bandwidth as a pie, lets say you and 3 other people want a piece of pie, the ISP will cut you and everyone a individual slice, which would be 1/4 slices. Now lets say more people want pie, they cut it into smaller pieces so each person can get a slice, however, when the pieces of pie start to get too small, they give your area a bigger pie, and cut it into the same number of slices.

However, if you want to get more bandwidth, you could steal some of another persons slice, which is illegal.

The legal alternative is to ask the ISP for a bigger slice, now this is where things get weird...

Some ISPs will simply make a better pie for your area and give you a slice of it, OR they simply make the first pie bigger and give you a bigger slice then the other people.

That's is how Cable internet and some DSL providers work in my area at least.

[Jazzmaster 716]

I'm happy to have a pretty quick connection speed most of the time, but still...

Like heck that connection is FAST!!

[BurroDiablo 222]

Bet it still take's 5 hours to download anything via Steam...

[coolotter88 2]

move to japan, they have faster internets on average...

the United States is below average, the Internets in China is cheaper AND faster than my internets in the US.