Grandma Uses 40Gb/sec Connection To Dry Laundry

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I know what most of you would be doing right now if you had a 40Gb/sec connection piped into your home but not this lady. It seems the best use granny could find for all that hot hardware was to dry her laundry. Thanks to everyone that sent this one in.

Sigbritt Löthberg used her blistering home network for more mundane tasks. "She mostly used it to dry her laundry," Hafsteinn Jonsson, a spokesperon for fibre network operator Karlstad Stadsnät told Swedish website The Local. "It was a big bit of gear and it got pretty warm."
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I don't get it. How does it work? Using broadband to wash laundry? Can some one elaborate...:confused:
 
To dry it, but I need a picture of this equipment 'cause I'm not seeing it either.
 
Wow what a n00b. Thats like 5 times faster than my current connection, so its almost 4 megabytes per second download speed. Man... oh the porn
 
Vorazan said:
Wow what a n00b. Thats like 5 times faster than my current connection, so its almost 4 megabytes per second download speed. Man... oh the porn
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Uh, no. It's 40Gbps, not 40Mbps. So assuming you have an 8Mbps connection, thats 500 times your speed (~400MB/sec). Absolutely rediculous. What kind of computer can even handle that kind of thoroughput?
 
Jesus christ. Here's Swedish grams drying her knickers w/ a net connection from hell, and all I got is 1.5M Verizon DSL, max of 3.0 (maybe; crappy wiring might hold me back) if I want to get on the line w/ their idiot phone support.

Question shouldn't be how is she doing it... It should be why the hell did her son think she needed such a fast/elaborate setup in the first place?
 
arnemetis said:
Uh, no. It's 40Gbps, not 40Mbps. So assuming you have an 8Mbps connection, thats 500 times your speed (~400MB/sec). Absolutely rediculous. What kind of computer can even handle that kind of thoroughput?
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Four MTRON SSDs in RAID 0 with a really good controller card could just barely write data to disk at 400 MB/sec.
 
I think granny should be given a [H]onorary membership in [H]ardforum!!!

She is the coolest granny in the tech world! PERIOD! Bar none!!!!
 
Lies. She's the mastermind behind piratebay, rapidshare, and satanlovesitwhenyousharemp3s.com!
 
In scandinavian internet we trust!

Thanks EB, LYSE, Teliasonera, Banetel and all others for allowing us to get this speeds <3, well 100//100 and 250//100 fiber etc.
 
early april fool, lol, its true, not the grandma's net if i have understood it, its her SON!.

but she's using it to dry cloaths YES!

Every1 in norway got internet(Broadband)
Most have possibility for a 100mbit connection through direct fiber.
many in sweeden have possibility for 1000mbit.

its just UK and US that laggs behind on the broadband part.
 
Sadly this only makes our piss poor broadband network infrastructure stick out even more. I think we're beyond the sore thumb phase. We need a new saying. Someone witty should come up with one.
 
killerbobjr said:
April 1st has already passed the international date line. Some websites write for a worldwide audience, hence you will see a lot of April Fool's jokes with a March 31st date.
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It doesn't sound like an April Fool's joke since the story is old news, except for the drying laundry part.
 
I guess that works better than a pair of 2900XTs in Crossfire. :p
 
HOCP4ME said:
Four MTRON SSDs in RAID 0 with a really good controller card could just barely write data to disk at 400 MB/sec.
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Miscalculation?


40Gbit/s is 5 Gigabytes a Second, approx 5,000MB/sec. 400MB/sec is only 3.2Gbit/s
 
Heh, it was based off my miscalculations. I also divided by 10, not 8, to account for overhead and imperfect conditions. Forgot a zero, 400MB/sec would be approximately what I figured you would get with 4Gbps. So, its actually upwards of 5000x faster than 8Mbit connections commonplace in the US.
 
Just imagine all the anime I can DL.
I'm still on dial-up. :(

But hey! Someone has a unsecured 7meg wifi connection that I'm using to DL 600gigs worth of stuff.
 
RoBo said:
She must have sucked some serious dick.
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her grandson wanted to prove that it was possible.

I'm surprised that no one seems to remember when it was announced that she had a 40Gb/s connection.
 
It was just to prove it could be done. No one needs 40gbit/s today, maybe in 10 years. I live in Sweden and I have 100mbit connection meaning 12.5MB/s download speed, that is enough since very few places can upload at that speed anyway. We're getting 1000mbit in a few years.

It's not true that most people have access to 100mbit though, you have to live in a large city. I used to live in a small city before I only had 24mbit DSL since it's to expensive to lay down fiber cables into the ground, but they're working on supplying internet through the electricity lines instead of the telephone lines which would open up 100mbit speed to pretty much anyone.

I lived in Canada for a year and I had 2mbit connection and a download limit of a few GB per week, I loved the country and it's people but the internet sucked :p so did the cell phones.
 
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