There’s No Limit To Internet Speed
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From USA Today:
“STOCKHOLM (AP) — She is a latecomer to the information superhighway, but 75-year-old Sigbritt Lothberg is now cruising the Internet with a dizzying speed. Lothberg’s 40 gigabits-per-second fiber-optic connection in Karlstad is believed to be the fastest residential uplink in the world, Karlstad city officials said.
“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.”
I want it.
[tags]super-speed internet,broadband[/tags]
8 Comments
anonymous
July 26th, 2007
at 11:38am
After a point downloading your email faster doesn’t make much difference.
But I still want it too.
Cecil E. Miles
July 26th, 2007
at 6:13pm
This is great!!!
Darryl
July 27th, 2007
at 12:31am
omg, what price for speed?
We’re paying Aus$59/mnth for 256kb/s with 10gb d/l.
kathi
July 27th, 2007
at 8:25am
Hope she has good Protection!! (virus, firewall, etc…) What a target.
I-user
July 29th, 2007
at 3:45pm
This is dreamy! Although if the sites you download from have limited bandwidth then a connection with 500 gigabits/sec wouldn’t be any better.
Steve
July 29th, 2007
at 8:50pm
Where do I sign up? network storage here I come
GiM
July 31st, 2007
at 12:22pm
I can’t believe you can write to RAM at this speed; And Vindows can’t use more than 2 GB of it (if you have more, this is your… “option”). I guess you can’t on the new SSD either (Solid State Disk)…
Tony Rich
August 2nd, 2007
at 12:01pm
Well it’s “Off the shelf” technology. The problem in the U.S.A. is the
RBOC’s (Regional Bell Operating Companies) who still actually own the
“physical plant” (i.e. the switches, lines, and trunks) won’t invest in
upgrading to fibre optic, and bringing it to the “local-loop” because under the court order that originally broke up AT&T (Although it’s slowly rebuilding itself), they must sell or lease facilities and bandwidth to those poor Ma & Pa startups such as Verizon, and U.S. Cellular.
So with no way to make a profit, There’s no sense in investing to infrastructure upgrades, just to be forced to lease it to your competition at “cost”.
They didn’t make that mistake in Europe.
Tony