A 75 year old woman from Karlstad in Sweden has been supplied with the world's fastest home internet connection.
Sigbritt Löthberg's has a 40 gigabits per second connection which is the first time ever that a home user had such bandwidth to play with.
Sigbritt, who had never had a computer until now, happens to be the mum of local internet legend Peter Löthberg who, along with Karlstad Stadsnät, the local council's network arm, arranged the connection.
Karlstad Stadsnät network boss Hafsteinn Jonsson said that this was more than just a demonstration. He was trying to get internet operators to invest in faster connections. And Peter Löthberg wanted to show how you can build a low price, high capacity line over long distances.
According to the Local, the silver surfer will be able to flick through 1,500 high definition HDTV channels simultaneously or download a full high definition DVD in just two seconds. (OMG)
The ultra-fast connection is possible thanks to a modulation technique which allows data to be transferred directly between two routers up to 2,000 kilometres apart, with no intermediary transponders. Apparently the most difficult part of the project was installing Windows on Löthberg's PC.
It is not clear what Löthberg thought about the connection, or if she will even use it.
Sigbritt Löthberg's has a 40 gigabits per second connection which is the first time ever that a home user had such bandwidth to play with.
Sigbritt, who had never had a computer until now, happens to be the mum of local internet legend Peter Löthberg who, along with Karlstad Stadsnät, the local council's network arm, arranged the connection.
Karlstad Stadsnät network boss Hafsteinn Jonsson said that this was more than just a demonstration. He was trying to get internet operators to invest in faster connections. And Peter Löthberg wanted to show how you can build a low price, high capacity line over long distances.
According to the Local, the silver surfer will be able to flick through 1,500 high definition HDTV channels simultaneously or download a full high definition DVD in just two seconds. (OMG)
The ultra-fast connection is possible thanks to a modulation technique which allows data to be transferred directly between two routers up to 2,000 kilometres apart, with no intermediary transponders. Apparently the most difficult part of the project was installing Windows on Löthberg's PC.
It is not clear what Löthberg thought about the connection, or if she will even use it.
[The Inquirer]
4 comments:
"Apparently the most difficult part of the project was installing Windows on Löthberg's PC."
LOOOOOL like that
they should use mac :p
wow
the largest number in my dreams for a broad band connection was 1mb/sec
that old b**ch have this connections and i have 512kb/sec
ihate myself and i hate this old lady more than myself
well hopefully lady Löthberg will enjoy the most of it while it lasts !!!
Well one more thing, just to remind everyone before they get all wet'n juicy about this bandwidth ... if you do your math then 40 Gigabits is 5000 MB/s being passed through in a second and there is NO storage device in the WORLD that can write that much data in ONE second, the fastest it will get with current technology is probably 125MB/s to 150MB/s sustained data being written and I'm talking about 4Gb/s Fibre Channel Harddisk Interfaces !!
PeAce :-)
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