75-year-old woman gets world’s fastest Internet connect

This is old news, but it still makes me drool wishing that I had this connection . . .

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 fibre-optic connection in Karlstad is believed to be the fastest residential link in the world, Karlstad city officials said.

How fast?
Well, in less than two 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.

Jonsson and Lothberg’s son, Peter, worked together to install the connection.
The speed is reached using a new modulation technique that allows the sending of data between two routers placed up to 2,000 kilometres apart, without any transponders in between, Jonsson said.

“We wanted to show that there are no limitations to Internet speed,” he said.

Peter Lothberg, who is a networking expert, said he wanted to demonstrate the new technology while providing a computer link for his mother.

“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.


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