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[Parvez]

"A 75 year old woman from Karlstad in central Sweden has been thrust into the IT history books - with the world's fastest internet connection."

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

That's amazing. 40Gbp/s

[JDPower]

Thats absolutely mad - "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"

[Tunerz]

What stress it will give to a "75 year old computer"!

Anyway that's somethin' someone with a dedicated server will ever dream of, no more lag...

[JDPower]

Tunerz, on Jul 14 2007, 01:15 AM, said:

What stress it will give to a "75 year old computer"!

75 year old computer? Its the owner that's 75 lol

[Andavari]

I wish my connection was that fast. She has a very good son to hook her up with such a fast connection!

So the connection can download a DVD's amount of data in 2 seconds, but can the hdd actually write the received data that fast to disk?
I can imagine the hdd moaning and hurling at the rate of data being written to it that fast.

[Matt_]

It is highly probably that the U.S military has something faster, after all is was them who invented the concept that later become the Internet.

Not forgetting the consideration that they somewhat have a decent enough budget to get the fastest connection there is.

[login123]

Andavari, on Jul 13 2007, 09:23 PM, said:

I can imagine the hdd moaning and hurling at the rate of data being written to it that fast.

Not to mention shrapnel. . .

edit:
From near the bottom of that article:
"The most difficult part of the whole project was installing Windows on Sigbritt's PC," said Jonsson.
Ya gotta love it.