Swede used 40Gbps internet connection to dry laundry

Chances are, you could think of a million and one ways to totally take advantage of having a 40Gbps internet connection installed in your abode, but for one Sigbritt Löthberg -- who actually had such a setup -- she chose to take advantage of it in quite a perplexing way. Reportedly, the 75-year old dame wasn't too interested in downloading an entire HD film in two seconds or having ping times more minuscule than the brain can fathom; rather, she chose to use the excess heat emitted from all the kit shoved in her house to "dry her laundry." Unfortunately, the poor lady has had the gear removed from her domicile for further testing in another location, but according to Hafsteinn Jonsson, who is heading up the fiber network operation for Karlstad Stadsnät, they're considering "giving her a 100Gbps [link] in the summer -- then she'll be able to dry all her neighbors' laundry too."

[Image courtesy of TheRedWoodMotel]

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 31st 2008 10:54AM]

No April fools here. The old lady is actually the mother of Peter Löthberg who one of the founders of the swedish internet backbone and network guru extraordinaire http://www.lightreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=33&page_number=4
The installation in his mothers house where actually a fieldtestinstallation for Cisco true to Peters spirit of show don't tell (where another example is when the beurocrats of the early swedish networkproviders argued over how to syncronize their neworks, Peter himself then went on a quick trip to Russia and bought himself a surplus atomic clock that he hooked up - problem solved.)

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 31st 2008 11:32AM]

Check out the antique versions of Firefox and OS X in that photo.

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 31st 2008 12:17PM]

Neither of which existed when this was taken... That's Netscape, probably on Mac Os 8!

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 31st 2008 12:05PM]

Exactly.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 1st 2008 6:17AM]

Man - I miss my Apple Adjustable keyboard! Even though I went through 3 of them cuz they kept failing!

[(Unverified) Posted Mar 31st 2008 11:34AM]

Such GRE implications with these analogies:

1) 40GB connection:laundry

a- billionaire:lotto
b- porsche:radio
c- vader:additional force powers

any more analogies to make 5 choices, the typical number?

[macha88 Posted Mar 31st 2008 12:21PM]

Linux:Antivirus

[y3knik Posted Mar 31st 2008 1:45PM]

HDTV:VHS

7.1 Reciever: Record Players

iPhone:Doom

Pick one?

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 1st 2008 8:47PM]

Excellent, now there are 5 choices:

My Princeton Review GRE teaching days are returning to me.

Official widget analogy for tech blog:

1) Choose the answer choice that most matches the analogy below:

40GB Connection: Laundry ::

a)iPhone:Doom
b)Linux:antivirus
c)Porsche:radio
d)billionaire:lotto
e)Vader:force

And, Vizu Polls is calling...
I shall cut and paste the poll html...

Opinion Polls & Market Research

[finalellipsis Posted Apr 3rd 2008 9:12AM]

All I know is that CRTs are the wave of the future.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 10th 2008 11:30PM]

I don't know