Swede used 40Gbps internet connection to dry laundry
By Darren Murph 
posted March 31st 2008 8:51AM
posted March 31st 2008 8:51AM
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posted March 31st 2008 8:51AM
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Pron faster then anyone could possibly imagine!
I don't know, I can imagine pretty fast.
it helps to have a giant space bar like in the retro puter above
pfft. Swedes.
No kidding. Why was a 75 year old lady testing such a fast connection. My 75 year old grandmother still says computers are a fad and will fade away.
She can dry my laundry any day!
Ew man! She's 75 years old! You can have her.
I'm pretty sure he literally meant "drying his laundry any day"...
Agreed. Clothes that he's still wearing isn't "Laundry"... yet. So it's not like he'll be naked. And while the clothes are drying I'm sure he'd want to visit some of the internet during his stay.
where is a server that seeds at 40 40gbps?
That's what I'm wondering. I have a 6mbps connection and I rarely use all of it. I occasionally get a fast torrent and the only servers I've seen with consistent speeds over 700kbps are the ones 2 blocks away at the local university.
Exactly. Besides, ping times are a limitation of end stations at that point, and will not get any faster with a fat pipe.
Gian
Usenet ftw
I'll show you a fat pipe.
No homo.
T-Bone, that's because of your client.
I use a private bit-torrent network with a few people to transfer large databases, and I have a 100mbit box for it. With rTorrent, I regularly use 80+mb/s.
T-Bone, try downloading something from Microsoft! I only have 10Mbps here so I only see 1.13MB/s on my downloads but that's still a hell of a lot faster than downloads from most other places.
damn...downloading porn, torrenting (+superseeding), AND ｓｔｉｌｌ ｈａｖｅ ｅｎｏｕｇｈ ｂａｎｄｗｉｄｔｈ ｔｏ ｓｔｒｅａｍ ｍｕｓｉｃ ａｎｄ ｐｌａｙ ＣｏＨ ｗｉｔｈ ｐｅｏｐｌｅ ｈａｌｆｗａｙ ａｒｏｕｎｄ ｔｈｅ ｇｌｏｂｅ．．．．
Pfft, 10mb is enough for that... works fine for me!
It is low latency and symmetrical but I can have a few http/nntp connections, some torrents, online radio and still game with 20ms pings so you're going to have to up the ante if you want to saturate this pipe... with more than soggy laundry! :)
"downloading an entire HD film in two seconds"
That's only theoretical. Good luck finding a harddrive which can write 10-15GB/sec.
Well you could always make yourself a RAM disk and then have a script that transfers it over to a HD once the download is complete. *shrugs*
Big honking RAID array. And I know a few people with those that wouldn't mind lending me a server if I had all that throughput 0_0 God damn that would rule...
I can just imagine it now... More bandwidth than it takes to get in to mordor, but All I have is wet clothing V_V Sad panda for sure.
I want to know what kind of hard drive she uses to record "an entire HD film in two seconds"
goddamn - I hope that isn't your real picture.
RAID
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goddamn - I hope that isn't your real picture. ]
I agree!
why do you care?
haha... this year you will NOT April fool me :D
It's March :)
This was on slashdot ages ago, so it's definitely real.
*sits in the corner in the fetile position with his 10mbs internet....* holy crap, 40gbs thats unbelievable, and 100gps... wow i didnt even know you could get that, my hard drive isnt even 100gb's... lol i could fill it up in less than a second!
There's a difference between "bits" and "bytes" bro.
Gb and GB isn't the same thing you know.
he he he
100GbE is still in its infancy - I don't think the standard has been set yet, but there are companies out there that are working on it. Found this on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiS0RoyiqlA
bjorn, actually, gb, GB, gB, Gb, and etc. mean nothing. There is NO standard that says a little b is bits, and a big B is bytes, or vice versa.
I wish people would stop spreading that crap around.
I just write mbyte when I'm talking about megabytes, and mbit when I'm talking about megabits. I wish more people would do the same.
mbyte? as in millibyte? wow that's a new one :-D
/kidding
@Jesse S
You are wrong; there is a standard.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_1541
Yeah, I get tired of people spreading such stuff, too, so please stop. Writing them in full for clarity is fine, but there is a standard for those who choose to abbreviate.
Although this may not be april fools, it is April here. I'm guessing you have heard of the whole time zones thing
Apparently you haven't heard of the whole Engadget is located in the US thing either.
Yeah, DeadlySeven, stop browsing US sites!...
(For those not getting it, this is really a comment to Aaron to stop thinking so damn locally)
/G
That is like a billionaire winning the lotto.
no, it's not.
it's like buying a porsche and just using the radio.
No.... more like buying an A380 and just using the manuals as pillows...
That's like an old lady using her modem to dry her laundry.
It's like using your CD-ROM tray as a cupholder.
That's what you get when your kids a Internet Giant and has some pull.. Internet connections so fast you don't know what to do with it..
April Fools Suckas from Aus. Telstra wont even turn ADSL 2+ on in our area because of fear of competition, all the equipment is there they just suck. and who cares if i went to a different ISP. i would be more inclined to go with telstra if they got the service running as fast as they could to as many people as they could. now if htye ever turn it on i WILL go with another ISP just to spite them. but congratulations to that lady, shes using something the "youth movement" of today know nothing about... INGENUITY!
40Gbps and she dried laundry with it. I mean I understand if she didn't have any use for it, but such wasted power... She should've just run several thousand dedicated servers for various games simultaneously. Probably would've dried her laundry faster too. Or she could've at least seeded a couple of (read: all) Linux distros.
She's the mother of the fella that's engineered large parts of the swedish fiber infrastructure. Pictures from a local newspaper of her and the router that supplies 40GBps (third photo from top):
http://www.nwt.se/ArticlePages/200707/10/20070710170341_107/20070710170341_107.dbp.asp
:)
1996 called.....it wants that computer back.