http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/07/20/s....ap/index.html
talk about a waste... what I wouldn't do with that kind of bandwidthSTOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) -- She is a latecomer to the information superhighway, but 75-year-old Sigbritt Lothberg is now cruising the Internet with a dizzying speed.
Lothberg's 40 gigabits-per-second fiber-optic connection in Karlstad is believed to be the fastest residential uplink in the world, Karlstad city officials said.
In less than 2 seconds, Lothberg can download a full-length movie on her home computer -- many thousand times faster than most residential connections, said Hafsteinn Jonsson, head of the Karlstad city network unit.
Jonsson and Lothberg's son, Peter, worked together to install the connection.
The speed is reached using a new modulation technique that allows the sending of data between two routers placed up to 1,240 miles apart, without any transponders in between, Jonsson said.
"We wanted to show that that there are no limitations to Internet speed," he said.
Peter Lothberg, who is a networking expert, said he wanted to demonstrate the new technology while providing a computer link for his mother.
"She's a brand new Internet user," Lothberg said by phone from California, where he lives. "She didn't even have a computer before."
His mother isn't exactly making the most of her high-speed connection. She only uses it to read Web-based newspapers
Can you even write a full length movie to a hard drive in under 2 seconds?In less than 2 seconds, Lothberg can download a full-length movie on her home computer -- many thousand times faster than most residential connections, said Hafsteinn Jonsson, head of the Karlstad city network unit.
Wow, I would download Video Game ISO's in minutes rather than days...................I wonder how much she has to pay.
you would have so many virus with that speed because of what you download
I call BS. Even if your connection is 1GBps? your processor could not handle it.
keep in mind its 40 kbits not kbytes. Makes a world of difference, and its STILL fast as !
Can the hard drive even transfer at that speed when you download?? I don't think it can...
When I use the ~50 megabit connection at the polytechnic college near my house to download, the download occasionally has to pause for the drive to keep up. I can't imagine what would happen for 40 GIGAbits.
that harddrive must have a turbo on nos to read write that fast
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