A 75 year old woman from Karlstad in central Sweden has been thrust into the IT history books - with the world's fastest internet connection. Sigbritt Löthberg's home has been supplied with a blistering 40 Gigabits per second connection, many thousands of times faster than the average residential link and the first time ever that a home user has experienced such a high speed. 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. "This is more than just a demonstration," said network boss Hafsteinn Jonsson. "As a network owner we're trying to persuade 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," he told The Local. Sigbritt will now be able to enjoy 1,500 high definition HDTV channels simultaneously. Or, if there is nothing worth watching there, she will be able to download a full high definition DVD in just two seconds. The secret behind Sigbritt's ultra-fast connection is a new modulation technique which allows data to be transferred directly between two routers up to 2,000 kilometres apart, with no intermediary transponders. According to Karlstad Stadsnät the distance is, in theory, unlimited - there is no data loss as long as the fibre is in place. "I want to show that there are other methods than the old fashioned ways such as copper wires and radio, which lack the possibilities that fibre has," said Peter Löthberg, who now works at Cisco. Cisco contributed to the project but the point, said Hafsteinn Jonsson, is that fibre technology makes such high speed connections technically and commercially viable. "The most difficult part of the whole project was installing Windows on Sigbritt's PC," said Jonsson.
The Scandinavians are have always belong to the Avant Garde when it comes to home use internet connections, but wow 2 seconds!
damn...i would just love to even have a 5megabit connection.....let alone a freakin 40gigabit connection...where do i sign
god damn, probably crash my computer if i have that lol, those terabyte harddrives and the next step up can finally be useful lols.
lol be waiting for a while, all the media companies will be trying to cap internet connections for as long as possible.. as soon as u can download a movie in 10 minutes, they will lose so much business
"The most difficult part of the whole project was installing Windows on Sigbritt's PC," said Jonsson. now that was hilarious...
I wonder if sites can even keep up with that speed. I think her download speed will be limited by the server she downloads from, pretty sure slow filefront.com wont be able to yield you 2gb/sec with all those downloaders connected.
wow in 2 seconds....imagine your hands wouldn't be able to catch up with the connection speed..it still take hours to complete downloading movies in my place...
I just have a connection of 16 MBit/s. 40 GBit/s is crazy. However, such a high speed link is a nice but the problem is the servers' upload rate. If the server's upload rate is only 200 kbit/s you will download at this speed. In the Past we were donwloading VCDs, today DVDs, tomorow HD-Media and in the future HD+++??? We need this 40GBit/s link!!!
Lol.. wow I am sooo surprised at all of these things on the net man.. Holy crap.. 40 gigs per sec I would be soo glad to have 1 gig per sec freaking 100 mb per sec is already fast.
crazy, but wouldn't mind gettin it later on hehe...wel at the mo, i only got 24mb net (LAN at 100mb), but thats still pretty fast in my opinion...but compared to the 40 gig, no question that nothing can come beyond that piece of technology, in which can only happen, as we all hope here, in yea - 10-15 years time, when we will prolly def hav terrabyte computers and HD monitors for each computer lol....
unfortunately, by the time the price for that sort've connection becomes commercially available, HD movies would come in sizes of 60GB each. (blame blu-ray discs XD )
