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Posted on 07/13/2007 12:29:04 AM PDT by Swordmaker
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.
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You would still have to wait on slow servers.
Indeed. Give me fiber or give me death(ly slow connection speeds)!
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Not with Torrent. Just download simultaneously from 40,000 other servers.
A T1 connection is a snail compared to a jet fighter in comparison to this connection...
I turned them down because their email servers lost about 10% of our emails when I used them.
The article says *40* Gigs per second.
I only have a 37 Gig hard drive.
I feel so small...
I mean, come on, just because you got gigabite humongus, doesn't mean you rule the world.
Sheeesh, maybe Sigbritt just wants a better pair of shoes.
Well, God Bless her, whatever floats her boat.
My name is MaxMax and I am on a lowly 1-mb line.
Will you marry me?
Sincerely,
MaxMax.
PS,
my number is (555) Lub-Choo. /wink /wink
Lub-Choo-Long-Time.
Neener neener! :)
That's Gigabits per second... divide by 10 to get approximate Gigabytes per second (8 bit word, plus start and stop bits).
They may have meant gigabytes, who knows. Anyway it would be cool to be able to download an entire encylopedia in one second.
that her advertised speed - I'll bet she actually gets a lot lower
That's it...I declare myself a charity case, so I can have a pipeline like Granny Lothberg!
Connections speeds are always listed in bits per second... not bytes per second.
Meanwhile I plug along with Comcast’s so-called broadband offering, paying over $60/month. It’s a great pity that the US isn’t leading the way in terms of affordable broadband access.
I want to know where she's going to put all those bits and bytes... She'd need a lot of very fast RAM to buffer the bandwidth before storing it...
Just about the bandwidth you’ll need to handle an Ultra-Hi-Def 3D video stream !.
Her son owns the company.
yitbos
In a related story, Sigbritt Löthberg was found drowned in 1s and 0s when her superhigh speed internet connection sprang a memory leak. She swam as long as she could but soon tired when the overload of bits reached the ceiling of the second floor of her Karlstad home. She is survived by her grieving son Peter Löthberg who was last seen three hours ago donning scuba diving gear prior to disappearing into the frothing maelstrom of data bits seeking his new Windows Vista computer, which he had loaned his mother. “I don’t know how I would survive this loss,” Peter wept, “I really loved that computer!”
Karlstad city officials were at a loss as to how to turn off the flow of pornography, mp3s and bit torrent files that were still streaming into the small cottage where the tragedy occurred. A large tornado of air is spinning around the Karlstad Stadsnät ISP office as more and more data is pulled into the feed and directed to Sigbritt’s home. The wind velocity is estimated to be over 200 mph and five Pakistani techs were dragged into their telephones by the suction when panicked Karlstad Stadsnät operators called tech support for help.
Reports coming from as far away as Pahrump, Nevada, USA, say that hard drives are being stripped of data to feed the voracious internet feed to Sigbritt’s broadband connection. Suggestions have been made that to prevent the drain of all data from all computers in the world, the World Wide Web may have to be shut down until the disaster abates.
Is there PC that can handle 40G/sec? A modem?
yitbos
40 Gigabits is equal to 4 Gigabytes.
LOL!
It takes longer than that for me to see what I've written after hitting "Post"!
Now that’s what I call ‘Wired’!
Unfortunately she has the Algore and Hillary show on every channel.
I think you’re right. It must be 40 Gigabits/second, which is aprox. 4 Gigabytes/second. A DVD is approx. 5 Gigabytes worth of data, and this article mentions it takes less than two seconds to transfer one...
Pictures of the equipment http://www.stupi.se/cgi-bin/kaka?year=2007;dir=20070708
But she needs terabytes worth of ram!
Nice but not very useful.
No PC can come close to accepting that much data that fast.
And what server can serve even remotely that fast?
Currently not even hard drives read or write nearly that fast.
That’s a bit like having a road designed for cars that go 10,000 mph - and having no cars that will go over 300 mph...
Researchers of the Swedish University Network ( SUNET ) have beaten the Internet2 Land Speed Record using two Dell 2650 machines with single 2GHz CPUs running NetBSD 2.0 Beta. SUNET has transferred around 840 GigaBytes of data in less than 30 minutes, using a single IPv4 TCP stream, between a host at the Luleå University of Technology and a host connected to a Sprint PoP in San Jose, CA, USA. The achieved speed was 69.073 Petabit-meters/second. According to the research team, NetBSD was chosen "due to the scalability of the TCP code" .
A T1 is 1.44 Megabytes/second. It’s like having a 1200 baud connection when you can have cable or DSL.
Funny! Reads like a sci-fi.
You have such an imaginative mind.
It is a pity, but you have to remember, the countries that lead the way with fast internet offerings, don't have the spread out population like the United States has. It's not economically feasible outside of suburbia.
I'd be happy if I wasn't stuck to dialup while trying to justify the $300 modem lease fee, and on top of the ~$65 a month fee, outrageously high latency of satellite internet, which will dump you down to dialup speed if you go over your monthly bandwidth capacity. I'm beyond the limits of DSL, and cable and Wi-Fi aren't even offered here.
...sorry about the messed-up numbers and missing info. That test was much longer ago than I knew, too (early 2004).
280 / 60 seconds...
And it was a little over 5 gigabits per second—not megabits.
It’s interesting to note that Peter Löthberg was in on that test, too, though.
The source server and destination server have exactly the same hardware and software configuration.
Hardware:
Intel Xeon, 3.00GHz dual core (woodcrest)
SUPERMICRO X7DBE motherboard
4GB memory
500GB SATA disk
Chelsio S310E-SR 10Gigabit Ethernet Adapter with PCI-express x8 I/O Bus
I’m looking forward to reading this as soon as it finishes downloading from my dialup connection.
IF she has enough USB ports. Check out the USB BBQ. http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/peripherals/usb-powered-bbq--wtf-196087.php
She uses it to play solitare and check email.
But wouldn't a bag of charcoal and a Weber be more earth friendly? :-)
1500 channels with nothing on.
I'd wear out the remote surfing through that.
You're way over my head, Monica.
What's funny to me here is 10 years ago only telecomtechnogeeks like me even knew what a T1 was. Now, everybody wants a T1 in their living room.....
I hate to tell you, but most DSL services will offer higher connection rates (at least downstream) than T1. T1 (actually DS1) is roughly 1Mb/s. Most DSL services I've seen offer 1.5Mb/s downstream, 384Kb/s upstream for far less.
Mark
When I'm at the office, late at night, taking a break by doing some Freeping, I've got an entire DS3 line to myself! :-).
Mark
So, how many extra carbon credits did Sweden obtain for saving lots of electricity by such a fast connection? Less time on line = less power consumed?
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