75 year old Swedish lady has world's fastest residential Internet - 40 gigabits a second

[Rabrrrrrr]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070719/ap_on_fe_st/sweden_high_speed_internet;_ylt=AkwVAhchU93PnKPJhuikBSkZ.3QA

In less than 2 seconds, Lothberg can download a full-length movie on her home computer

I bet even matcom couldn't click on porn sites fast enough to burn up that bandwidth.

:rofl:

[MonkeyFunk]

1. What's a 75 year old Swedish lady

gonna do with all that porn?

[Rabrrrrrr]

2. "I downloaded the entire Vivid Video library in 4 minutes. Now what do I do?"

[billyskank]

3. That's mad

but I bet there isn't a site on earth that could serve her that fast. She could download a shit load of things at once, though.

If she had a BitTorrent download going with a brazillion seeds, that's about the only way she could max it out I can think of.

My ISP recently upgraded my service from 10Mb/s to 20Mb/s. The stupid thing is, my router only has a 10Mb/s ethernet connection on the WAN port, so I can't see any of it.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

13. Is the router provided by the ISP or bought by you? -nt

[billyskank]

14. It's mine

bought it for bugger all second hand off a friend. It's served well for the price I paid for it.

Originally I just plugged my PC straight into the modem. I can do that without fear since I use Linux. :)

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

17. ...and know how to use iptables, I suppose.

I guess you could do that again if you REALLY want 20 Mbps.

[trof]

4. OK, how do I get it?

[Hand]

5. Argh...

"She's a brand-new Internet user," Lothberg said by phone from California, where he lives. "She didn't even have a computer before."

His mother isn't exactly making the most of her high-speed connection. She only uses it to read Web-based newspapers. :banghead:

[Rabrrrrrr]

12. Yeah, it's like giving her a Lambourghini so she can cross the street for groceries

once every 6 months.

[DS1]

6. that's faster than any standard hard drive can write

[ZombieNixon]

7. Though is a 75-year-old lady really going to notice the difference?

:shrug:

[DS1]

8. I'm just wondering what the OS would do

throttle the download down to how fast it can write? I don't think I know of any systems that do that :shrug:

[ZombieNixon]

9. Well, I would imagine that whatever site she reads from

probably doesn't have a 40 Gbit connection, and probably delivers data at a rate that the OS can actually handle. :shrug:

[Rabrrrrrr]

16. No, I think Creative Quilting and Tea Cozy Stitchery Magazine went to a terrabit server

Those old people don't have time to wait 10 seconds for a pattern to download - they might have a heart attack at any time!

[DS1]

18. After going through 7 month's worth of lolcat faddery in .223 seconds

I think anyone would have a heart attack

[edbermac]

20. At 75, you can't afford to wait.

Time is very precious.

[Rabrrrrrr]

10. I think she's tied directly into Memory Alpha by subspace, so that's not an issue

:P

[ZombieNixon]

11. Oh. Of course.

Duh. x( :P

[billyskank]

15. Don't bother us with mere piffling details!

:rofl:

[Parche]

19. Movies

All of Senator Vitters diaper movies in a nanosecond...................