Swedish woman gets superfast Internet

[metta]

Swedish woman gets superfast Internet

Thu Jul 19, 1:52 PM ET



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.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070719/ap_on_hi_te/sweden_high_speed_internet

 

[Ramindra]

Wow! That's a bit faster than the 4 bits per second we used to get when we first hooked up to the net in Thailand in the mid 90's!

 

[thermodynamics]

'net access just plain sucks here in the US. Probably because we have too many monopolies when it comes to utility companies.

 

[number2]

WHAT? I thought i was the only one who got that! I am soooooo gonna bitch-slap her!

 

[qwe549]

Damn! Wonder if she'd let me visit for a while... or maybe I can just get her son to come visit and help me "install some fiber optics" (okay, that was lame).

 

[Negasta]

That connection is about 113 000 times faster than mine and its all wasted on an old lady that will never use it to its full and glorious potential.

 

[D-Base]

Damn, I want one of those too

 

[star-warrior]

Gawd! Imagine the hot porn that 75 year old lady could download!

Oops, did I day that out loud?

 

[Inwood]

I wonder what her monthly access charges are?

 

[latinoguy19]

That's fast. Haha.

 

[Corny]

kinda pointless. i mean .. exactly how many routers support this new technique? the one test router they used ?

 

[Lucas07]

Man, that is fast. I envy her!

Yeah, I wonder how much it costs her though.

 

[evilest]

Cow. My link is evil.

 

[rotary]

Makes sense. Sweden is one of the biggest copyright breakers in the world because of online piracy.

Oh, she says she only reads web-based newspapers, but that woman will be ripping bootlegs before you can say Fixodent.

 

[qwe549]

that woman will be ripping bootlegs before you can say Fixodent.

I think that's the best quote I'll hear all day!

 

[robbieadam]

Damn! I wish I had speeds like that. I spend hours a day downloading when she could just spend 5 minutes!

 

[BrandonSBCA]

Think of all the movies! The DVD's you can download!