75 year old woman, has Worlds fastest home Broadband connection at 40Gbps
Posted: July, 15 2007A 75 year old woman from Karlstad in central Sweden has been thrust into the IT history books - with the world’s fastest internet connection.
Sigbritt Löthberg’s home has been supplied with a blistering 40 Gigabits per second connection, many thousands of times faster than the average residential link and the first time ever that a home user has experienced such a high speed.
But Sigbritt, who had never had a computer until now, is no ordinary 75 year old. She is the mother of Swedish internet legend Peter Löthberg who, along with Karlstad Stadsnät, the local council’s network arm, has arranged the connection.
“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.
Sigbritt will now be able to enjoy 1,500 high definition HDTV channels simultaneously. Or, if there is nothing worth watching there, she will be able to download a full high definition DVD in just two seconds.
No data Loss
The secret behind Sigbritt’s ultra-fast connection is a new modulation technique which allows data to be transferred directly between two routers up to 2,000 kilometres apart, with no intermediary transponders.
According to Karlstad Stadsnät the distance is, in theory, unlimited - there is no data loss as long as the fibre is in place.
“I want to show that there are other methods than the old fashioned ways such as copper wires and radio, which lack the possibilities that fibre has,” said Peter Löthberg, who now works at Cisco.
Cisco contributed to the project but the point, said Hafsteinn Jonsson, is that fibre technology makes such high speed connections technically and commercially viable.
Windows woes
“The most difficult part of the whole project was installing Windows on Sigbritt’s PC,” said Jonsson.
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sounds a bit like WOC technology but would be interested to read more about it.
And I would be happy to know which provider allows me to download a full dvd every two seconds
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we have 256kpbs in turkey. an we pay 40$ for it. what a shame.
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hehe, in Germany you get 16Mbit for 25€…
but 40Gbit ? With this you could floodping some ISPs
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You know, I’m curious what the specs. are on her computer
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Where do i sign up?
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hehe, why would u waste that kind of speed on windows?
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in U.S.A. i get 100mb for $50 and i thought it was a good deal. Tell me where to sign up
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Yea, we have standard dial-up (56kbps…I think) for about $16, but its horribly slow. I wish one of MY close relatives was an internet legend.
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Where Do I Sign Up…I Will Pay!
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£18 for 8MB here, but can get higher, just preferred the ISP
But hell yea, I want some of that
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Mexico is about $50USD for 2MB, but the service is crappy so it tops al 1.6 MB.
Pricey…
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wow
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I’ve got 100Mbps for £15 per month. I could do with faster though…
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I pay around 95$ a month for a 512kbps DSL connection here in KSA, and thats one of the cheapest ISPs
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Here in So Cal USA I pay $28 a month for 1.5 mbs Never thought it was a bargan, till now hehe.
Must say there is a chance that it may start at 40gbps but add a user and 20gbps and 2 more and 10 gbps and so on and so on ?
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here in saudi arabia .. i pay 480 $ every month for 4 mg dsl .. the service is very bad and very expensive
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no samer here in KSA we pay around 678$ per month for 4Mbps
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well I m payin around 100$ for a 512Kbps Conncetion here in Bahrain with a
15 GB downlaod limit also.
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In France, it’s 30M/s for 19€. (You can have 100M/s for 29€ too)
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My town just came out with 5mb/s.. Woo what a break through…
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I pay $30 (CAD) for 100 mbps. You guys are all getting ripped off! $30 CAD is about $26 USD, or 15 GBP, or around 17-20 EUR.
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I am paying $75 for 100MB
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Up to 20mbps in Australia. Only ever get less than half that though. paying $60 AUD
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We have 20 Mbps in the states on a Fibre connection for $50. Its fantastic! Its possible to get 100 Mbps, but its crazy expensive.
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in australia we have some of the wors net connections on the planet, supposedly where payign $60 per month for 256k
yet the service is so bad we only get 27k max
horrid
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Bet she’s on usenet half the time.
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Dunno what the other Aussies getting, but I am getting, 20mbps non-stop, for $60aus, per month.
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Here in Bulgaria I pay $10 per month for a 2Mb/s.
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Tanzania: 40/= per MEG which works out around $35 a gig. It’s ADSL 2Mbps in theory, 5 or 600k if you’re lucky (and hammering it), and most of the time (esp 7am to 7pm) you’re lucky if you can so much as stream a Youtube clip without it stuttering and pausing.
For the arithmetically challenged, even with a humble 128kbps CIR a 24/7 connection would give you about a gig a day. In Tanzania even if you ONLY did a gig a day, you’d be spending $1000 a month.
That’s cheap. Don’t even get me started on what it costs to do it on HSDPA…
You guys whining about prices make me laugh…
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In Thailand (BKK) 1 Mbps (TRUE) USD 18/month and it works 24/7
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DSL 6mbps, wish I had a famous swede internet guru as a son.
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That’s crazy.. what server will allow downloads of 40 gb per second? Though, I’m being hypocritical, I sure damn want that damn speed internets plox..
I hate the Philippines connection rates
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i get 300mbps for 20 usd a month
i feel special in il.
but that is awsome how can i get that here?????
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Working in networking myself, I would have to say that it is impossible to download a full movie because of limitations on the computer, even with advanced SAS and SAN SCSI devices it is only possible to move less than 1Gb/s onto hard disk, unfortunately even if router buffers could take that fast a transfer, the download would also be capped by the host server…
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Quoting off transfer speeds as though they exist for you at home, LOL, “I can get 100Mb for $***”, rubbish.
Try more like 12mbps if you are lucky. Just because your Ethernet is a 100mps or a 1000mps, doesn’t mean you see anything anywhere near that.
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ummm… OK 40Gbps; That is just a waste of bandwidth for one user. Do the math, bits to Bytes and bytes to bits with throughput, bus speed, read/write speed of memory and hard drives, there is not host that can handle that much throughput
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paying US$21 for a 384kbps subscription. well thats their advertised speed. but actually speeds only averages about 100kbps.
ISP: SmartBRO (PLDT)
here in the philippines
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ok wait i got 24MB for £20 a month and i thought it was the highest watz teh highest u can get in London or England ?????? and what provider
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I heard about this along time ago, she uses a fiber connection, and the fact that she must have a 15,000 RPM HDD and about 3 gigs of 1066 mghz RAM with a decent cpu. Bummer you cant sign up for this internet. But you can get one that uses the same principal if you live in La, and san deago, or okland for $50 a month. (45 mps down and about 25 up)
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here in Brazil I get 2mb/R$108,00, about US$60€, 29£
a shame
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Looks like MULTIPLE hd streams is the only thing it’ll be good for, since I’ve never heard of a server that can upload at 40gbps… can pcs read hdds at 40gbps? Imagine having 1tb of ram so you can make a ramdrive to store data…
Here in the uk I get ~12mb for £25/$50 a month, pretty cheap for the uk.
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in mauritius u paying nearly £40 to get 1 mb most peoplr are still on 56k modem as it a rip off …
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even though the connection shows 100 mbps why the file downloading speed is just 500 kbps only. some body please clarify???
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i live in commerce california and i pay $12 USD for a 700 mb connection and a free wireless router. but it turns off in the middle of the night whe i use it most. so i just run with my laptop to the back of my friends house and he lets me sit in his back yard and get his wi-fi free which is probably 1,300 mbps. he pays $20 usd a month ,i have been to ausi and have had to pay 400 usd to get a decent 100 mbps for 2 days. mexico wi-fi sucks also,the best ive ever had was in my house,italy,miami,new york,puerto rico,and in my other house in downtown la.
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