WTF: Old Swedish Lady Has Better Internet Connection Than We Do
According to a story on CNN.com, 75-year-old Sigbritt Lothberg of Karlstad, Sweden is surfing the web at 40 gigabits-per-second. Karlsbad officials claim that her fiber-optic connection is allegedly the fastest residential uplink in the world.
In less than 2 seconds, Lothberg can download a full-length movie on her home computer -- many thousand times faster than most residential connections, said Hafsteinn Jonsson, head of the Karlstad city network unit.
Jonsson and the old lady's son, a networking expert, installed the connection. Meanwhile, she's never used the internet before, and she's currently using her high-speed connection to read online newspapers.
And if we wanted to get a same bandwidth here in the States? It's $7,500 to $14,000 per month for a T3 connection, depending on what service you go with (obviously priced for commercial use). I just did a bandwidth test here in New York, and I have a whopping 5.7 megabits per second (although it probably doesn't help that I'm running World of Warcraft right now).
Old lady surfing Web at 40 gigabits-per-second [CNN.com]
Lazy Panda
Posted to Video Games on 22 July 2007
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The United States is not even in the top 10 in the world for broadband infrastructure, including speed. For a country that often prides itself on technological advancement, I'm sure it is surprising.
I wants my T3! I wants the full-length movies in under 2 seconds! Tiny mad! Tiny smash!
Tiny SMAAAAAAaaaAAASH!
i think my computer would explode uf it ever reached that kind of broadband connection...
@Brinstar
For real? I thought Xbox Live alone would push the US to the top 10 at least.
Online newspapers?!
ONLINE.
NEWSPAPERS?!
I think we need to get this lady into gaming. All that speed is being WASTED.