Old Swedish lady gets 40gbps fiber connection.

[SDF]

http://www.thelocal.se/7869/20070712/

Old lady in Sweden gets 40gbps fiber optic connection to prove it can be done, and at a low cost that is affordable. She can watch 1,500 HD television channels at once, or download an HD movie in two seconds. They can even do router to router transfers with no intermediaries, currently over 2,000 kilometers(but that distance is expanding).

Online games with nearly no lag whatsoever? Sweet. Even Japan's 60mbps connections seem snail-like in comparison.

Then again, with piracy concerns, industry lobbyists would push hard to keep the US pipelines small and congested.

PC's can't even write memory that fast.

[Samiam303]

Oh my goodness... The RIAA must be tearing their hair out right now.

That's AWESOME.

[Rawhide]

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

[Fax Celestis]

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

That's *always* the hardest part. It tears at the heartstrings.

[FdL]

Let's all go to gradma's house! I bought a new pack of DVD-Rs ^^

[Ceres]

How very very odd... I had a dream about this type of technology being installed here in Norway this very night

Strange dream to have. I must have read about it somewhere before and forgotten about it I guess. Freaky...

Well, that aside. Groovy! Internet killed the video star!

[ArchivesNinja]

Holy mother of pearl, where do I sign up?!

[Mysticaloctopus]

That's *always* the hardest part. It tears at the heartstrings.

I'm about to go put in a new hard drive and transfer all my pirated stuff across from my current (small and dying) hard drive.

If anyone could give me a luckstone, that'd be most appreciated.

[Xerillum]

holy... wow... Lets go to Sweden!

[Shikton]

iWant. Badly. Damn neighbours for having all that fun :(

[Warshrike]

I... Oh... Wow...

And I thought my ADSL was fast after a decade of 56K...

[13_CBS]

Huh...according to a friend of mine, a 40 gbps connection shouldn't be possible...

[Samiam303]

Well, obviously the friend's wrong, eh?

Why wouldn't it be?

[Lord Herman]

The series of tubes that make up the internets aren't wide enough, obviously.

But wow... 40 gbps... me wants!

[Akaziel]

My... God. That is sheer awesomeness.

[Eldpollard]

Oh wow. And my Dad still has 28 kb/s dial up. At least I have broadband. But still 40gps would be nice.

[B-Man]

That's insane! That doesn't even seem remotely possible!!

...me wants... even though it'd kill my bandwidth limit in a quarter of a second!

[KuReshtin]

40Gbps connection would be pretty sweet, but the limitations on the rest of the internet would mean that you'd never get that kind of speed.

Sweden's had 1Gbps connections available for the general public for quite some time from one ISP, but it's been bloody expensive. I think the price was something like $300-400/month (although I haven't read the article explaining this for a while, so I'm not sure about the price).

Still, pretty sweet stuff.

[mikoto]

...That could transfer my entire hardrive in less than a second

[Saithis Bladewing]

These kind of speeds are more than possible, its just that the internet companies don't seem interested in upgrading everything to fibreoptics and making sure that we can actually USE the amount of internets we'd be getting. Which is a pity, because it'd be great to play with all of my overseas friends with little to no lag. Nothing beats the speed of light.

[FdL]

...That could transfer my entire hardrive in less than a second

Actually no. First because your hard drive is not that fast, and second and obviously, because you'd need to have same internet connection yourself :p

So thinking about it, it would be terrible overkill to have that connection by yourself. I mean, a fast connection you can take advantage of. But in this case it's way too much, you'd never be using more than...10% of that speed?? That's due to limitations of everyone else in the internet and the existing infrastructure.

[0wca]

http://www.thelocal.se/7869/20070712/

Old lady in Sweden gets 40gbps fiber optic connection to prove it can be done, and at a low cost that is affordable. She can watch 1,500 HD television channels at once, or download an HD movie in two seconds. They can even do router to router transfers with no intermediaries, currently over 2,000 kilometers(but that distance is expanding).

Online games with nearly no lag whatsoever? Sweet. Even Japan's 60mbps connections seem snail-like in comparison.

Then again, with piracy concerns, industry lobbyists would push hard to keep the US pipelines small and congested.

PC's can't even write memory that fast.

Well, technically she can't download a HD movie in 2 seconds, because no one can upload that fast..

But still - WOW!