Really high-speed internet.

By Miss Cellania in Everything Else on Jul 12, 2007 at 6:43 pm

150_comp.jpg75-year-old Sigbritt Löthberg of Sweden has the world’s fastest internet connection. She can receive information at 40 gigabytes per second, allowing her to receive 1500 high-definition TV signals at once, and download an entire DVD in two seconds. Löthberg never had a computer before now. She was the recipient of the setup because her son is Swedish internet legend Peter Löthberg.

“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.

They wanted to prove that fiber technology makes such connections commercially viable.

“The most difficult part of the whole project was installing Windows on Sigbritt’s PC,” said Jonsson.

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  1. Nora
    Jul 12th, 2007 at 9:00 pm

    The thought of a 75 year old lady using such high speeds for e-mail pictures of the grandkids, and refilling perscriptions online, is really depressing.
    I want that speed! :P

  2. quinnn
    Jul 12th, 2007 at 9:17 pm

    I wonder if I email him my address, would he come to my house and set me up?

  3. Dan
    Jul 12th, 2007 at 9:54 pm

    “The most difficult part of the whole project was installing Windows on Sigbritt’s PC,â€Â

    Well, my mom uses SimplyMEPIS, but for that much multimedia capability, maybe they should have installed DreamLinux?

  4. Jake D.
    Jul 12th, 2007 at 10:23 pm

    I love the idea of this old woman probably spending 8-10 minutes typing in a task online, then it coming up in the blink of an eye. Well, even faster than a blink.

  5. Rob
    Jul 12th, 2007 at 11:03 pm

    What’s really depressing is that she’d have to use something like bittorrent to use even a fraction of that speed, considering the connections to most web sites aren’t even comparable, or are capped per connection.

  6. Alex
    Jul 13th, 2007 at 12:35 am

    She’ll get spam at the speed of light!

  7. BikerRay
    Jul 13th, 2007 at 4:59 am

    Don’t they mean gigabits, not bytes? A DVD is about 8Gbytes, and would only need around 0.2 seconds at the given speed.

  8. Dodgyd55
    Jul 13th, 2007 at 6:52 am

    wow my hate for those leeching elderly only grows

  9. gonz
    Jul 13th, 2007 at 7:00 am

    So, can I get this at Ikea?

  10. MrPumpernickel
    Jul 13th, 2007 at 10:37 am

    That would be rather pointless unless she has a harddrive capable of writing at such a great speed as well. In the end it’s not the connection that craps out (in the case that she’d be able to recieve data at such a speed) but the computer hardware that’d be unable to handle it.

  11. Nickelking
    Jul 13th, 2007 at 11:25 pm

    No, I think they mean Bytes as 40Gb is far from the worlds fastest internet connection.

  12. Ravi
    Jul 18th, 2007 at 4:29 am

    How this is possible ? They must share this thing.

  13. Ravi
    Jul 18th, 2007 at 4:31 am

    I have doubt if this is true

  14. Xirum
    Aug 29th, 2007 at 3:25 am

    Sure, I’ve heard this story elsewhere before. In fact it was a Swedish old lady I was told about so I’m sure this story is known beyond this page.

    My input was that in order to download, say, a DVD in .2 seconds, the download host would need a line as fast/faster.


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