40Gb/s broadband for septuagenarian

Robert Hallock (Thrax) When good technology falls into the wrong hands.

July 14, 2007 10:08 AM ET in News, ,

A 75 year old women from Karlstad, Sweden has been granted a FORTY GB/s fiber optic line. She’s the mother of Peter Löthberg, a local internet legend. He, in association with the city council’s networking arm, arranged the connection. Unfortunately the woman has never owned a computer until now, and may not even use it all that much.

WHAT.

The technology is a new spin on fiber, which employs signal modulation. A single run of cable from router to router can span more than 2000 kilometers and provide this level of bandwidth to residential local loops.

The United States can expect to see this technology by 200never.

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13 Comments:

  1. Winga
    14 Jul '07, 11:16 am

    WHAT

  2. Thelemech
    15 Jul '07, 6:20 pm


    Great Tech!

  3. RWB
    15 Jul '07, 7:25 pm

    Talk about overkill, her computer won't even be able to handle that....

  4. RyderOCZ
    15 Jul '07, 10:42 pm
    Quoting From the Article

    she will be able to download a full high definition DVD in just two seconds.

    Mee'sa want

  5. airbornflght
    16 Jul '07, 12:02 am
    Quoting RWB

    Talk about overkill, her computer won't even be able to handle that....

    why not. Thats 5GB/s she only needs 40 gigabit network cards. though I think a fibre card will do her nicely.

  6. primesuspect
    16 Jul '07, 1:29 am

    Seriously, what kind of end-point NIC could she possibly have? even 10gb NICs are out of the stratosphere and they are pretty much the fastest you can get right now. 40gb/s is impossible to a single desktop computer, so this article is lots of media fluff...

  7. RWB
    16 Jul '07, 1:32 am

    Right... what about CPU and Memory? Not to mention HDD speeds.

    Can you burn a whole DVD worth of information to your HDD in a couple seconds? If so, I want some of what your smoking haha.

    That's the last thing I need, a guest who calls me up asking why our network speed is only 10Mbps, "I thought this was HIGH SPEED! I have a 40Gbps connection at home!" My God, I might actually shoot myself, or everyone around me... you know which ever seems more fun at the time.

  8. Thrax
    16 Jul '07, 7:04 am

    Would you guys STFU? IT'S 40Gb/s! WHO CARES HOW SHE GETS IT TO HER PC.

  9. kryyst
    16 Jul '07, 8:20 am

    I've seen this article plastered all over the net. While it's cool as a what if - it's only a what if and makes for a great tech demo, nothing more nothing less. Why so many people are getting all up in arms about it is beyond me. If her computer could handle it and everything else was ideal she still wouldn't be able to take advantage of 90% of that pipe as her ISP would throttle her down to maybe 10mb or if she's lucky 40mb speeds, they couldn't handle any more then that.

    But I do anxiously await the day when people will be buying new computers because they currently can't keep up with their internet connections.

  10. airbornflght
    16 Jul '07, 8:44 pm
    Quoting kryyst

    I've seen this article plastered all over the net. While it's cool as a what if - it's only a what if and makes for a great tech demo, nothing more nothing less. Why so many people are getting all up in arms about it is beyond me. If her computer could handle it and everything else was ideal she still wouldn't be able to take advantage of 90% of that pipe as her ISP would throttle her down to maybe 10mb or if she's lucky 40mb speeds, they couldn't handle any more then that.

    But I do anxiously await the day when people will be buying new computers because they currently can't keep up with their internet connections.

    well that makes no sense. THats like saying my ISP will throttle me down to 2mb if I try to use my entire 5mb pipe. If she has a 40gb pipe then she should be able to pull the entire thing. Granted she could probably serve a large corporation with that kinda pipe...

  11. RWB
    16 Jul '07, 8:53 pm
    Quoting airbornflght

    well that makes no sense. THats like saying my ISP will throttle me down to 2mb if I try to use my entire 5mb pipe. If she has a 40gb pipe then she should be able to pull the entire thing. Granted she could probably serve a large corporation with that kinda pipe...

    Not exactly... I mean you connect to your LAN connection at 10/100/1000Mbps speeds but that doesn't mean your internet is going to be that fast. Road runner for example takes a small pipe and feed everyone in an area 7Mbps connections which if everyone tried using that much speed it would over saturate the line. So even though she has a 40Gbps connection, the ISP may not even have that kind of speed itself

    For future use though, it would be nice if everyone could get fat pipes like that.

  12. CB
    16 Jul '07, 9:09 pm
    Quoting RWB

    For future use though, it would be nice if everyone could get fat pipes like that.

    Ah... see when I read that the first time I thought it said something else and well... erm... nevermind...

  13. RWB
    16 Jul '07, 10:33 pm
    Quoting CB Droege

    Ah... see when I read that the first time I thought it said something else and well... erm... nevermind...

    Maybe you did.... maybe... you.... did....

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