updated 11:21 a.m. EDT, Fri July 20, 2007
Old lady surfing Web at 40 gigabits-per-second
STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) -- 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.
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 1,240 miles apart,
without any transponders in between, Jonsson said.
"We wanted to show that 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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