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magician661
Thu 31st Jul 2008, 12:58
Sigbritt Lothberg, a 75 year old granny in sweden, just got a 40 Gbps internet connection.

Its about 20,000 times faster than 2 Mbps, and 6 Lakh 40 Thousand times faster than a dial-up.

Interesting how such news spreads with such rapidity over the fibres, as it were... Lotherberg's home connection happens to be the fastest residential Internet connection on the planet.

Lotherberg can download a full-length dual-layer DVD in two seconds, or watch 1500 HDTV channels streamed simultaneously.

Let's see what Lotherberg might do with her connection, in increasing order of horror:
1. Download windows updates
2. Chat with relatives abroad
3. Play Yahoo! games with jovial granny-friends right in Sweden
4. Search for recipes online.

source http://itsallabouttech.blogspot.com/2008/07/fastest-internet-connection-on-planet.html
Fergal
Thu 31st Jul 2008, 17:15
How did she get such a fast connection, who is her ISP?

Is it expensive?
Nazreen
Fri 1st Aug 2008, 04:00
How did she get such a fast connection, who is her ISP?

Is it expensive?

Taken from The Local (http://www.thelocal.se/7869/20070712/).

But Sigbritt, who had never had a computer until now, is no ordinary 75 year old. She is the mother of Swedish internet legend Peter Löthberg who, along with Karlstad Stadsnät, the local council's network arm, has arranged the connection.

No wonder she has the world's fastest broadband!
DEADMAN
Fri 1st Aug 2008, 07:10
Woh! Hmm. It's like having whole Internet at your home as local. Nice information anyways. We can download every contents of Internet through it. ;)
bojomojo
Fri 1st Aug 2008, 16:52
Speaking of the "whole internet" any1 of you heard about internet archives?
Fergal
Fri 1st Aug 2008, 17:34
... any1 of you heard about internet archives?

Are you referring to http://www.archive.org ?
bojomojo
Sat 2nd Aug 2008, 08:02
Kinda, internet archives are copies of the internet, there are only like 7 of them in the whole world
Hurbel2k
Sat 2nd Aug 2008, 09:10
Only 7? That's a lot dude!
bojomojo
Sun 3rd Aug 2008, 12:18
Lol, no not alot :D
its not like a private internet, but its a copy
Zantetsken
Thu 7th Aug 2008, 01:15
An entire copy of the internet's content would be humongous! "Only" 7... I can't imagine how many terabytes that would be.
Would that be legal, though? Wouldn't they have a lot of files and articles that you're only granted access to after paying for membership to that site?