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Just in case you haven’t seen this one yet, a 75 year old woman in Sweden is surfing the net at a staggering 40 gigabit. The irony is she uses her net connection to primarily read online newspapers.

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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Sigh...this is like the skinny anorexic girl winning a free ticket to a buffet...why is life so unfair?!?
 
WOW talk about her never buying anything entertainment media wise again ever music,movies, software lol. the truly funny thing I thought was the quote from the cities official no less :eek: , that wouldn't go down too well in here the U.S I would Imagine, 2 seconds for a movie? those studios would have a shit-fit lol
 
matcauth said:
WOW talk about her never buying anything entertainment media wise again ever music,movies, software lol. the truly funny thing I thought was the quote from the cities official no less :eek: , that wouldn't go down too well in here the U.S I would Imagine, 2 seconds for a movie? those studios would have a shit-fit lol
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While in theory you could download a dvd that fast it would never happen. No ones servers can support that fast of a connection. Hell her computer can't. She prob has that bandwith to her house and it is connected to a 10/100 nic. I dought she has a couple of 10g nics in her system.

In most cases her internet isn't going to be faster then your average cable modem.
 
swatbat said:
While in theory you could download a dvd that fast it would never happen. No ones servers can support that fast of a connection. Hell her computer can't. She prob has that bandwith to her house and it is connected to a 10/100 nic. I dought she has a couple of 10g nics in her system.

In most cases her internet isn't going to be faster then your average cable modem.
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Not only that, but a hard drive can't take 40GB of data in a second and store it for any length of time.
 
matcauth said:
WOW talk about her never buying anything entertainment media wise again ever music,movies, software lol. the truly funny thing I thought was the quote from the cities official no less :eek: , that wouldn't go down too well in here the U.S I would Imagine, 2 seconds for a movie? those studios would have a shit-fit lol
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We're so far behind on internet speed tech here in the states it aint funny, we could only dream of anything close to that.
 
Private_Ops said:
We're so far behind on internet speed tech here in the states it aint funny, we could only dream of anything close to that.
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I live in providence RI USA.....damn right.....US sucks compared to many. While not 56k anymore, sure ain't what it should be. 5mbps is nice, but sure as hell ain't worth $45 a month. For that it should be at least 20mbps.
 
In Japan i could get 70mbps for like $20 usd/month, but thats beside the point. Cable/dsl companies dont want to giive faster speeds cause there no incentive for them. Theres no other alternative, no competition, no nothing. Our highspeed here is equal to dialup in some other countriies. Granted there are a few expceptions, but the price for what you get here is absolute horrible. $50/month for 10mbps..... :eek:
 
my DSL which is if i remember correctly is 768Kb/s down and roughly 256 (might be lower) or so up is about $25 a month here in Ohio.

oh, provider is Verzion, which surprisingly i havent had a single problem with other than the POS modem they sent me.

DSL is the only alternative here other than Timer Warner cable which i wouldnt touch with a 10 foot pole, we had the cable TV and it sucked balls, we switched to satellite TV.

My uncle has timer Warner for everything, phone, TV, and the net, and my DSL would rape it :p
 
Oh ya the Grandson who installed the connection is a Optical Guru and works for Cisco in their R&D department.
 
<a href="http://www.speedtest.net"><img src="http://www.speedtest.net/result/158681373.png"></a>


hmm, i suppose i dont know my connection to well or i dont understand net speeds worth sh!t
 
Private_Ops said:
<a href="http://www.speedtest.net"><img src="http://www.speedtest.net/result/158681373.png"></a>


hmm, i suppose i dont know my connection to well or i dont understand net speeds worth sh!t
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damn why is the edit button gone, sry bout that
 
This is cheesy, is there any system bus in a PC that runs at 40Gb? 32bit PCI bus runs about 1.3Gb.
 
protias said:
That is pretty crappy upload speed compared to your download.
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Upload speeds are limited by this ISP to inhibit the desire of people to run web-servers out of their home. They sell faster up-speed accounts, but call them business lines.

We CAN get up to OC-12 speed here, if we're within the optical network area. But of course, its VERY expensive :) If not, you can get up to 2Mbps upload (which is faster than a T1, btw..)
 
CyberDeus-RagDoll said:
Upload speeds are limited by this ISP to inhibit the desire of people to run web-servers out of their home. They sell faster up-speed accounts, but call them business lines.

We CAN get up to OC-12 speed here, if we're within the optical network area. But of course, its VERY expensive :) If not, you can get up to 2Mbps upload (which is faster than a T1, btw..)
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That sucks to hear Deus.

And you suck at being able to have OC12 :p Yes, T1 is only at 1.544Mbps, so 2>1.544 :p
 
swatbat said:
While in theory you could download a dvd that fast it would never happen. No ones servers can support that fast of a connection. In most cases her internet isn't going to be faster then your average cable modem.
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I'm pretty sure places like google and MS have faster connections than that :)

However, you could max out your computer by using your ISP's newsgroups, and they might even have some binary linux newsgroups if you are lucky. If not, you could use premium newsgroups, but I doubt even giganews can hit 40gb.

A raptor 150gig hdd can hit a max of about 90 megabytes/s sustained throughput. Thats roughly 700 megabits/s. I imagine that would be the fastest practical amount you could download and store. So in other words, anything over a gigabit is pretty much wasted for residential use.
I dont think even the fastest SCSI 15k rpm drives have sustained transfer rates tremendously faster.
I imagine you could boost it a bit with forms of raid though.

But in the USA, you are lucky to get close to 10 mb, let alone 1 gb.
 
Probably nothing, if I read it right she is part of a test that whatever company her son works for.
Usually tech in a company never pay for the connection (sometimes whole company- for feedback)
 
Well PCI-E x16 has a max theoretical throughput of 64Gb/s so you would have to have a PCI-E x16 NIC that could somehow handle 40Gb/s along with a PCI-E x16 hard drive controller with at least 20x 15K SAS drives to even come close to maxxing out that connection.
 
You think since she is a grandmother if you asked nicely she would share it with you?
 
I think after browsing all of the internet at once, she will have become cynical and tell me where to stick the homebaked cookies I made her.
 
Private_Ops said:
my DSL which is if i remember correctly is 768Kb/s down and roughly 256 (might be lower) or so up is about $25 a month here in Ohio.

oh, provider is Verzion, which surprisingly i havent had a single problem with other than the POS modem they sent me.

DSL is the only alternative here other than Timer Warner cable which i wouldnt touch with a 10 foot pole, we had the cable TV and it sucked balls, we switched to satellite TV.

My uncle has timer Warner for everything, phone, TV, and the net, and my DSL would rape it :p
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Cincinnati Ohio ($45/month):





Personally its slow and expensive. Upload isn't half-bad considering most uploads suck.
 
CyberDeus-RagDoll said:
Upload speeds are limited by this ISP to inhibit the desire of people to run web-servers out of their home. They sell faster up-speed accounts, but call them business lines.
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Your fiber is teh suxx0r. I have like 50-60mbit upload speeds and I don't even know why. It's supposed to be a 20/20 account. I'm not complaining though.

http://imageshack.us

And yes I do run a couple sites off the line. They're high CPU usage but low bandwidth so I built a server out of old parts and plugged it in. The cost of the fiber is far less than dedicated hosting and I get to surf off it.
 
swatbat said:
While in theory you could download a dvd that fast it would never happen. No ones servers can support that fast of a connection. Hell her computer can't. She prob has that bandwith to her house and it is connected to a 10/100 nic. I dought she has a couple of 10g nics in her system.

In most cases her internet isn't going to be faster then your average cable modem.
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Maybe not her computer... ;) :D :cool:
 
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