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  1. STOCKHOLM, Sweden - 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.

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    thats pretty fast.. but she would have to have a serious computer to keep up with that . lan, harddrive, pci, usb, firewire, all of them cant even transfer data that fast. i think PCIe at its fastest is only 4gig xfer. 40gigbit. whats that around 5gigbyte? i guess its close

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    Direct download to lots of RAM? That type of speed will make the motion picture industry nervous.
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  4. Can we request her to send her computer and other hardware specs for the other lesser mortals to get enlighten !!
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    The headline is bullshit.

    Both computers have to have the high speeds for the transfer to work that fast, and it also assumes the computer hardware can go that fast too.
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    Originally Posted by lordsmurf
    The headline is bullshit.

    Both computers have to have the high speeds for the transfer to work that fast,.
    Yes an most connections I'm getting about 300K/sec , fastest I've seen was when I dowloaded Virtual PC from MS that came in around 800K.
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    I've see about twice that @ 1400k.
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    I should add 800K is near the upper limits of my connection.
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  9. The headline should be "could" D/L ,,blah blah.. She is actually using a really old computer, which her son gave her to heat the house, called a Cray 2. Water-cooled. ALso her link would be a downlink, not an uplink! not sure if this is symmetrical or non-symmetrical (not that it really matters). Takes me 75 years to D/L 2 giga-seconds of hi-def
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  10. Read carefully, folks.

    It says she "can download", not that she "did download".

    And I agree, she couldn't write the file that fast.
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  11. Woah!
    40 Gb eh?

    Yeah, what with the bottlenecks in currnet hardware...
    Me thinks that she could sell 1Gb connections to about 39 people...
    And still have 1Gb to herself, and not notice any slowdown on bit torrent...


    Assuming, of course, that she has a simple RAID Stripe (or some such)...


    But to be honest, I dunno if there's a router out that can split a single
    40Gb connection into fourty 1Gb connections...
    Allthough, a while back someone did post a link to a new chip that might just do the trick?
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    Is this measured in Dog seconds?

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  13. Lesee... 40Gb/sec...
    That's 2,111 ATSC HDTV Live Streams...
    If I did the math right... That's insane...

    But I would love to see a 2,111 HD Tuner HTPC...
    Or at least, the parts of it that are below the clouds...
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  14. Man thats too much for a 75 year old woman lol. Oh the things i could do with such speeds............................................ ..........
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  15. My home computer can be 5000K and upload is 385k.

    I live 500 meters from the central tel Centrex system.

    If I wish I can get 100,000k download and 3000k upload for my home.

    But since I am not a big downloader, no need here for that kind of speed.

    Don't you wish you could just dream of that speed,
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