75 year old woman has world's fastest broadband

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

[zeugma]

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

Actually, most of the civilized world has much better broadband than we do here in the US.

 

[zeugma]

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.....

yeah, but 10 years ago, the real telecomtechnogeeks wanted an OC3. 

[kitkat]

HILARIOUS!

But the funniest line was:

“...and five Pakistani techs were dragged into their telephones by the suction when panicked Karlstad Stadsnät operators called tech support for help.”

[Swordmaker]

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

No, didn't. It's 40 gigaBITS per second... divide by ten to get the real throughput in gigaBYTES.

[CHEE]

(Remember, the proper pronunciation of IE is “AAAAIIIIIEEEEEEE)

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I’m sure you are aware that this is the yell of a very happy CAJUN. I love gumbo.

[Swordmaker]

HILARIOUS!

>Blush<

Thanks.

[tubebender]

As the Road Runner says...Beep Beep

[roaddog727]

“divide by ten to get the real throughput in gigaBYTES.”

Actually devide by 8, not 10. but agreed.

8 bits to the byte.

[Uri’el-2012]

"The most difficult part of the whole project was installing Windows on Sigbritt's PC," said Jonsson.

Get Root !

[Thermalseeker]

yeah, but 10 years ago, the real telecomtechnogeeks wanted an OC3.

True, and we started to see optical interfaces about 10 years ago in the cellular world, but most of the central office equipment providers at the time weren't making a lot of switching equipment that would interface with fiber. So, converters were required and it all wound up going back to copper anyway.

[Recovering Hermit]

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

I basically have a "T1" with my current DSL connection. I get 1.5Mbps download, 384Kbps upload. You probably do too.

Hell, the DS3 circuits at the office are only about 45Mbps each.

I don't know what you'd call this link that she's got!

[SouthTexas]

But I c a n ' t r e a d a n y f a s t e r.

;)

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Mac Ping List

This doesn't say anything about the Mac, or even AAPL or any of its products. But it does say that "The most difficult part of the whole project was installing Windows on Sigbritt's PC."

[r9etb]

"Peter! PETER! Get over here right away!!!! My modem sprung a leak, and my house is full of bits, and now the neighbor's car has washed away. YOU GET OVER HERE NOW!!!!"

[r9etb]

Damn you! Not only did you beat me to the joke, but you made it better. Note to self: read thread before posting.

[Bob]

“divide by ten to get the real throughput in gigaBYTES.”

Actually devide by 8, not 10. but agreed.

8 bits to the byte.

For storage, that's true. For serial transmission, though, each byte requires a 'start' bit and a 'stop' bit. It's long been a common practice to divide by 10 rather than 8 to convert a serial bit rate to a byte transfer rate.

[Cymbaline]

Let’s see...
A T1 is 1.544 Mb/s, and this lady’s connections is 40Gb/s, which is appx. the equivilent of 20 OC48s. You could download enough to fill a Terabyte hard drive in about 4 minutes.

The mind reels!

[Cymbaline]

Things have changed a bit. I’m working for a major cell carrier right now, and I’ve got dozens of OC-3s at my disposal. The far end is still cell sites, though. Bell has improved on their T1 testing ability, although the CWA still sucks. Probably the same grizzled old farts you used to work with.

[Cymbaline]

It’s all optical now. Copper is becoming obsolete.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Here you go.....get some storage:

Seagate 400GB Ultra DMA/100 16MB Buffer ST3400632A-RK - Retail Hard Drive Kit.
Price: $ 89.99