75 year old woman has world's fastest broadband

The Local - Sweden ^ | Published: 12th July 2007 11:07 CET

[Clam Digger]

Oh Swell, but can Sigbritt do the watuzi, the boog-a-loo, can she do the tango, can she grill baby-back ribs?

IF she has enough USB ports. Check out the USB BBQ. http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/peripherals/usb-powered-bbq--wtf-196087.php

[listenhillary]

She uses it to play solitare and check email.

[smoothsailing]

Well, boot me up, CD!

But wouldn't a bag of charcoal and a Weber be more earth friendly? :-)

[Moonman62]

Sigbritt will now be able to enjoy 1,500 high definition HDTV channels simultaneously. Or, if there is nothing worth watching there,...

1500 channels with nothing on.

I'd wear out the remote surfing through that.

[Clam Digger]

Yeah, that's why I stick with the USB cannon, for training interns.

[smoothsailing]

Interns?

You're way over my head, Monica.

[Thermalseeker]

A T1 broadband connection for the price of DSL?

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.....

[MarkL]

A T1 broadband connection for the price of DSL? I don't believe it.

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

[MarkL]

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.....

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

[RSmithOpt]

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?

[Thermalseeker]

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! :-).

Back in about 1987 when I worked for a major cell carrier I had dozens of T-3's at my disposal. The speed was impressive, but unfortunately the other end was connected to cell sites.....not much "content". Back in those days Bell didn't have many "carrier guys" in the field. Getting a T-1 up and running usually meant teaching their guys T-1 fundamentals and troubleshooting techniques. Back when we were turning up lots of sites I would cringe every time if a Bell T-1 was involved in the WAN scheme. I much prefer microwave DS-1's to T-1's. Point and shoot with no CWA Bell guys to screw things up.....

[ShadowAce]

[marvlus]

The article says *40* Gigs per second.

Gigabits, not Gigabytes. 8 bits make 1 byte. so 40 Gigabits equals 5 Gigabytes, still a hellavu lot!

[roaddog727]

“Would you believe 4 Gibabyte per second broadband?”

You missed it.... Not 4 GBPS - order of magnitude greater.... 40 GBPS.

WOW.

HOLY CRAP.

Cisco rocks. I new there was a reason I got all my Cisco certs and bought their stock.. :-)

[libs_kma]

"pffft

that her advertised speed - I'll bet she actually gets a lot lower.

...and slower still when her neighbors get home from work and start checking email... /s

[magslinger]

;)

[Tokra]

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...

Memo to Henry Ford - 1896: Don't bother with your automobile. A good idea maybe, but not very useful. There are no paved roads that can handle your automobile and there are no gas stations to fuel it. So why not just give up your project?

Memo to Orville and Wilbur Wright - 1903: Don't bother wasting your time with your flying machine, a good idea maybe - but not very useful. There are no airports or landing strips to fly to.

Memo to Guglielmo Marconi - 1895: Don't bother with your radio transmitting device. A good idea maybe, but not very useful. There are no commercial radio stations and no one has any radio receivers anyway.

Get my drift?

[CarolinaGOP]

I am jealous!

[Still Thinking]

Well, I’m sure it’s 40 GigaBITS per second, unless the number’s been converted for public consumption. Data rates are normally always in bits. Still, 40 Gigs of them are a lot!

[Still Thinking]

Is this like when Dilbert’s mom ended up with a frame relay drop in the sewing room