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Swedish Woman, 75, Gets Superfast Net

Posted July 18, 2007 2:28 PM

From Yahoo! News: Technology News:

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.

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07/19/2007 9:03 AM

So viruses/spyware can download thousands of times faster too. GREAT!!!

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07/19/2007 8:36 PM

"His mother isn't exactly making the most of her high-speed connection. She only uses it to read Web-based newspapers."

All that hi speed fiber optic capability going to waste when a dial up connection or DSL at the most would be more speed than is needed to read the daily online newspaper!

What a waste!

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