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2007-07-13, 05:28 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Nov 2006
Old Swedish lady gets 40gbps fiber connection.
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.
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2007-07-13, 05:32 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Jun 2005
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- Cleveland, OH
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Re: Old Swedish lady gets 40gbps fiber connection.
Oh my goodness... The RIAA must be tearing their hair out right now.
That's AWESOME."I'll make you party at my funeral
'Cause mourning is for suckers.
I'll rent a ferris wheel and
cotton candy machine and have open bar
with all the Pabst that you can drink
the PA blasting my Clash records.
You'll finally know that life's okay
Even when bad things happen"
Stand There Until You're Sober,
Bomb the Music Industry!
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2007-07-13, 05:41 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Sep 2005
- Location
- Australia
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Re: Old Swedish lady gets 40gbps fiber connection.
This is the best line:
"The most difficult part of the whole project was installing Windows on Sigbritt's PC," said Jonsson.
"My Hobby: Replacing your soap with gravy" by rtg0922, Doll and Clint "Rawhide" Eastwood by Sneak
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2007-07-13, 06:00 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Jun 2006
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- Fairfield, CA
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Re: Old Swedish lady gets 40gbps fiber connection.
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2007-07-13, 06:03 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Jan 2007
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Re: Old Swedish lady gets 40gbps fiber connection.
Let's all go to gradma's house! I bought a new pack of DVD-Rs ^^
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2007-07-13, 06:52 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Feb 2007
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- Norway
- Gender
Re: Old Swedish lady gets 40gbps fiber connection.
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!OotSP :D
Spoiler
My creations:
Custom initiative system (shots)
The Nameless [MitpII]
D20 "total conversion" (will probably never be finished :P)
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2007-07-13, 11:36 PM (ISO 8601)
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- May 2006
- Location
- Virginia, USA
- Gender
Re: Old Swedish lady gets 40gbps fiber connection.
Holy mother of pearl, where do I sign up?!
True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country. ~ Kurt Vonnegut
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2007-07-14, 05:31 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Apr 2006
- Location
- Lancaster
- Gender
Re: Old Swedish lady gets 40gbps fiber connection.
Spoiler
I won a trophy, yay!
Mod madness, Roland's Choice award (tied with Ava)
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2007-07-14, 08:43 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Apr 2006
- Location
- Busy not existing
- Gender
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2007-07-14, 08:53 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Oct 2005
- Location
- Oslo, Norway
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Re: Old Swedish lady gets 40gbps fiber connection.
iWant. Badly. Damn neighbours for having all that fun :(
- "Cool with me. Let's go massacre something."
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2007-07-14, 11:01 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Jul 2007
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- Bega, NSW, Aussieland
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Re: Old Swedish lady gets 40gbps fiber connection.
I... Oh... Wow...
And I thought my ADSL was fast after a decade of 56K...You've just been Warshruck.
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You there. Yes you, the person reading my signature. Go to this website. Do it now. It's a small roleplaying website which was first based on Warhammer, but now contains a hell of a lot of Homebrews. You should join them. Join them now.
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2007-07-14, 11:19 AM (ISO 8601)
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- May 2006
Re: Old Swedish lady gets 40gbps fiber connection.
Huh...according to a friend of mine, a 40 gbps connection shouldn't be possible...
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2007-07-14, 11:20 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Jun 2005
- Location
- Cleveland, OH
- Gender
Re: Old Swedish lady gets 40gbps fiber connection.
Well, obviously the friend's wrong, eh?
Why wouldn't it be?"I'll make you party at my funeral
'Cause mourning is for suckers.
I'll rent a ferris wheel and
cotton candy machine and have open bar
with all the Pabst that you can drink
the PA blasting my Clash records.
You'll finally know that life's okay
Even when bad things happen"
Stand There Until You're Sober,
Bomb the Music Industry!
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2007-07-14, 12:15 PM (ISO 8601)
- Join Date
- Mar 2005
- Gender
Re: Old Swedish lady gets 40gbps fiber connection.
The series of tubes that make up the internets aren't wide enough, obviously.
But wow... 40 gbps... me wants!
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2007-07-14, 12:25 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Feb 2007
- Location
- No Idea.
- Gender
Re: Old Swedish lady gets 40gbps fiber connection.
My... God. That is sheer awesomeness.
I'm VERY busy due to real life and whatnot, so I'm taking a break from all WWs and SGs. I should have warned y'all beforehand, and I apologize if I've inconvenienced any of you due to my many autolynches. I really should have stated how busy my life is.
'Tis my Team RAF Trophy Case.
Yay for my Ceikatar! w00t!
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2007-07-14, 12:44 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Nov 2006
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- Aberystwyth/ Huddersfield
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Re: Old Swedish lady gets 40gbps fiber connection.
Oh wow. And my Dad still has 28 kb/s dial up. At least I have broadband. But still 40gps would be nice.
I now have a blog. Have a look if you wish. It contains those naughty profanities that you won't find here. If you like what you read send me a PM, or if you don't like it. I'd like to know how many people here read it.
Avatar done by me. If you want one then you clearly have no taste. I'll do one happily. You just have no taste.
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2007-07-14, 03:08 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Jul 2006
- Location
- Route 34
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Re: Old Swedish lady gets 40gbps fiber connection.
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!Pokémon Stuff: FC 3093-8484-9162 | Friend Safari Sunkern, Swadloon, Quilladin | List of Pokémon
B-Kachu: Oo! Inconspicuous cookie with a string attached to it! *nom*
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2007-07-14, 06:39 PM (ISO 8601)
- Join Date
- Feb 2007
- Location
- Some say he's in Scotland
Re: Old Swedish lady gets 40gbps fiber connection.
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.
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2007-07-15, 04:50 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Mar 2006
- Location
- Ottawa, Canada
Re: Old Swedish lady gets 40gbps fiber connection.
...That could transfer my entire hardrive in less than a second
Curiosity killed the cat but for a while I was a suspect.
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2007-07-15, 05:26 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Apr 2006
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- Oxford, UK
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Re: Old Swedish lady gets 40gbps fiber connection.
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.
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2007-07-15, 06:19 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Jan 2007
- Gender
Re: Old Swedish lady gets 40gbps fiber connection.
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.
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2007-07-17, 06:06 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Jan 2007
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- Ljubljana, Slovenia
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Re: Old Swedish lady gets 40gbps fiber connection.
I have no friends; I make my Mind my Friend.
I have no enemy; I make Incautiousness my Enemy.
I have no castle; I make Immovable Mind my Castle.
I have no principles; I make Adaptability to all circumstances my Principle.
I have no laws; I make Self-Protection my Laws.
I have no sword; I make No Mind my Sword.
-The Samurai Creed
Even in the darkest places you will find a friend.