While we've seen all sorts of blazing
feats over fiber here
lately, it's not often that such wide open
bandwidth gets piped directly to a home, but a 75-year old Swede recently changed all that when she had a 40Gbps connection installed in her domicile. 'Course, this fine dame
is the mum of Swedish internet legend Peter Löthberg, and she's hoping to somehow "persuade internet operators to invest in faster connections." The trick behind the setup is a "new modulation technique which allows data to be transferred directly between two routers up to 2,000-kilometers apart with no intermediary transponders," and just in case you're wondering, she can download a full high-definition DVD in a painstaking two seconds.
[Via
Slashdot, image courtesy of
TheRedWoodMotel]
posted Jul 13th 2007 8:33AM
that's amazing. maybe AT&T will boost their EDGE network to this by the holidays!
LOL
Moahaha, Swedes own.
and i thought my 100mbps down 2 mbps up was fast..
i am not worthy i am not worthy..
Damn I live in sweden and I want that I "only" got 10/10Mbit
http://rocha-city.miniville.fr/
http://rocha-city.miniville.fr/ind
http://rocha-city.miniville.fr/tra
That's borking sexy.
everyone other than the US has a faster speed :(, i swear when it comes to technology advances we F*$%# suck.
yeah, but you guys got the iPhone first!
(sweet first iPhone comment on this story ;) )
The USA is a very large country. It takes a lot of cash to upgrade any sort of network nationwide. We're also a very privatized and capitalist nation, so customers are going to have to want to pay for these upgrades. I'd say most American households don't see a need for faster networks.
That being said, my stupid cablemodem connection needs to be faster!
Can hard drives even write this fast?? Also can internet servers even send data this fast? It's pretty useless when other technologies haven't caught up yet.
Ouch.. faster than all I can imagine...
Which technologies? Azureus would make awesome use of that line... *drools*
Swarm speed: 27.8 Gb/s
i don't see the purpose of 40Gbps, when everything should be focused on wireless technology. Fast or not, wireless technology is the convenient choice. Btw I assume its being used on a multi cluster raid setup of some sort.
"i don't see the purpose of 40Gbps"
Tell that to a person in charge of a Tier 1 ISP network. Come back and tell us what his/her reaction.
It's my opinion, cost wise, we should focus on implementing wireless technology to begin with. Laying down millions of miles of fiber optic is time and space consuming.
Yeah, wireless at that speed over 2000 km? Lemme know when you've done that mate, I've got this lovely flying pig for sale.
How is laying fiber optic cables "space consuming"? They are usually buried in the ground. And there is no feasible way yet to get wireless anywhere near that fast. What most companies are doing now is best IMO: fiber optics to wireless routers in the home. I just got FiOs internet with wireless router in my house, and its just fine.
We but that servers us europians well. Usa can test the iphone and when all the bugs and bumps has been ironed out, we will be ready for it here in Sweden.
http://rocha-city.miniville.fr/ind
You should get them to send over some of those newfangled "Colour TV's" as well.
ooo you got "color tv" i've heard of that. our internet is in black and white as well.
http://rocha-city.miniville.fr/
The Internet is the new cable TV. 40Gbps and still nothing decent to watch.
DVD's aren't high-def.
They could have meant HD DVD, for the high-def part. Get it?
Oh, yes. Sneaky sneaky.
You're Dan, he's Dan, two Dan's don't make a right!
I'm a third Dan. What quick post times those other two have.
But will she adopt me? I'm lovable, polite, and bathe pretty regularly.
LOL little does the American know that Europeans bathe infrequently.
*sigh* if only I could keep that wonderful *cough* young woman company and make sure she does not abuse her internet connection...
Necessary?....no
Do I want this?.... yes
"...she can download a full high-definition DVD in a painstaking two seconds."
Well, not quite. Even at 40gb/s (5GB/s) you'd only have downloaded about half an HD movie after 2 seconds. It'd take you that long to download a long SD movie (circa. 10GB).
I should get out more :s
Actually, most HD-DVD movies are only about 10 - 12 GB.
"I tend to live in the past because most of my life is there."
- Herb Caen
@Totalfixation, you wouldn't need to write to the hard disk if you receive data that fast. You can just "stream". It could be the equivalent of opening files from a server on your LAN, except on a much larger sale.
Speeds like this have awesome potential for distributed storage. You could keep all of your files and your itunes library etc etc in a datacenter and access them from anywhere as if you were opening them locally.
Go Sweden FTW.
Damn, now i'm Danish, and my goverment wants to be the leading country in this kinda technology, but this is just crazy, like to see our isp's put up a fight vs 40Gbps.
Now my 20Mbit suddenly seems so slow.
Wondering about the cost, i pay 399Dkr = 73.9$ for a 20Mbit, so what would a 40Gbps be like?
Economy of scale-- that'd be like buying what, a Q3 line? Maybe that's not what it's called.. but a line right into the internet's backbone, however they name it. Somewhere there's a connection that awesome, but it's not in a domestic setting.
The amount of porn....... at your fingertips..... MAAAN
Didn't Michael Dell got a fibre optic cable running in his house for his internet connection? He even said it himself.
Go on sweden :) Im sitting comfy with my 10meg connection, which is being increased free of charge soon, go virgin (ex ntl) :D
I suppose this is the pictures from the installation since this is from Peters own photogallery.
http://www.stupi.se/cgi-bin/kaka?year=2007;dir=20070708
Looks like her electric bill might go up a little ;)
Reminds me of that Enterprise episode, where they find the monitoring station in the Volcan santuary...
Coolest. Mom. Ever
Wonder how much that costs..
6mbit is 54 a month 8mbit is 64. Cable.
No dsl or fios avail.
Heck id be happy if i could get the full speed im paying for
Ouch..those prices suck....
I think i'm paying $49.99, maybe less for 20Mbps down and 5MBps up.
FiOS is a great thing.
o_O
I think I just nutted all over myself..........
I have had dreams about this. Sadly, I am not even joking.
Suddenly my 100/100 isn't as cool anymore..
*orgasm* um, er, *cough* I like technology.
That's alot of tubes.
Crap! And all I can get here in the US is 1gb fiber.
http://www.paxio.net/home.php?link=Internet
My interweb penis has officially shrunk.