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blazinggg

Posted: Sat Jul 21, 2007 6:12 am
by s.dot
http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/07/20/supe ... index.html

Story Highlights
75-year-old Swedish woman has a 40 gigabits-per-second fiber-optic connection

She can download a full-length movie on her home PC in less than 2 seconds

The woman's son installed the connection, he's a a networking expert

The speed was reached using a modulation technique

:D

Posted: Sat Jul 21, 2007 6:30 am
by Chris Corbyn
8O I'd love to see a picture of this old lady to see if she looks like a 75 year-old geek :P

Posted: Sat Jul 21, 2007 6:47 am
by feyd

Posted: Sat Jul 21, 2007 7:50 am
by s.dot
Oh wow, me, along with cnn, is late. :)

Posted: Sat Jul 21, 2007 9:40 am
by RobertGonzalez
8 days late is fine (in any industry that is not tech related ;) ).

Posted: Sat Jul 21, 2007 10:32 am
by The Phoenix
Everah wrote:8 days late is fine (in any industry that is not tech related ;) ).
But just think, at 40 megabits a second, you would have had 16 bazillion movies downloaded while you waited to hear the news 8 days late! :P

Posted: Sat Jul 21, 2007 12:08 pm
by RobertGonzalez
That was funny. :D

Posted: Sat Jul 21, 2007 1:41 pm
by Jenk
The Phoenix wrote:
Everah wrote:8 days late is fine (in any industry that is not tech related ;) ).
But just think, at 40 megabits a second, you would have had 16 bazillion movies downloaded while you waited to hear the news 8 days late! :P
gigabits, not megabits.

Posted: Sat Jul 21, 2007 2:44 pm
by The Phoenix
Jenk wrote:
The Phoenix wrote:
Everah wrote:8 days late is fine (in any industry that is not tech related ;) ).
But just think, at 40 megabits a second, you would have had 16 bazillion movies downloaded while you waited to hear the news 8 days late! :P
gigabits, not megabits.
Whats a jigawatt?

Posted: Sat Jul 21, 2007 5:55 pm
by Ollie Saunders
Everah wrote:That was funny. :D
I lol'd too. :)

Posted: Sat Jul 21, 2007 7:09 pm
by s.dot
I wonder what the up speed is like.
A connection like that could never be fully utilized on a home pc.
Although, if i had it, I'd never bother paying for hosting again.