Thursday, July 19, 2007
The fastest home internet connection in the world
Frankly, this just does not seem fair:
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.
That's so cool. I want that technology, and I want it now.
7 Comments:
By 
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Thu Jul 19, 01:57:00 PM:
I have FIOS which is already fast enough to give me a bit of perspective.
At the speed they're quoting, you really couldn't download a movie that fast? Why? The rest of the internet, particularly the server you'd be downloading from, doesn't go that fast.
And if it did, you soon discover you need a faster computer to keep up. For all of Moore's Law, PC manufacturers really haven't upped the speed of disk drives or buses.
So, even if you had this fast a connection, you couldn't really use it. Feel better? ;)
By 
Ed, at
Thu Jul 19, 02:27:00 PM:
You'll also want a 40GB NIC, which is gonna leave a mark.
By Purple Avenger, at
Thu Jul 19, 05:13:00 PM:
Even the internal L1 speed of the fastest Pentium 4's won't support that kind of transfer rate.
This is a BS article.
By , at
Thu Jul 19, 06:21:00 PM:
Obviously one person doesn't need a connection that fast, but if you have multiple computers or users at a single location then the increased bandwidth makes sense.
Also the only way you can use the bandwidth is if parallel access to a number of sites is a normal state of affairs since each site will have its own access speed.
I run a business with banks of servers doing data mining from the web and I have two OC3 connections that I on occasion max out.
My nominal loading is about 70% of available bandwidth.
For personal use I have a Linksys RV016 router with seven six meg dsl lines for input to give input and redundancy.
By , at
Thu Jul 19, 06:51:00 PM:
Believe me to use that kind of bandwidth is not a simple thing.
I initially had an OC1 connection and the outside net was bottlenecking me to about 25% loading.
I then dedicated two servers to doing packet sniffing and trace routes to examine the traffic patterns.
After two weeks of usage they jumped net loading to 95%.
Now I have three quad dual core servers doing dynamic traffic analysis to vote on adjustment of dynamic task priorities on the other servers to maximize bandwidth utilization.
It's all about which NAP is accessed with what loading per NAP and who is hosting the source sites.
So you are doing traffic shaping to distribute the feeds from various level 1 and level 2 ISP hosting points.
By , at
Thu Aug 02, 04:08:00 AM:
wow, that sounds complicated, do you ever get time to do anything meaningful with your life?
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