Monday, July 23, 2007

Old lady surfs at 40 gbits

She is a latecomer to the information superhighway, but 75-year-old Sigbritt Lothberg is now cruising the Internet with a dizzying speed. <A HREF="http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/07/20/superfast.net.ap/index.html?eref=rss_tech">Lothberg's 40 gigabits-per-second fiber-optic connection</A> 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.

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