.Here I am waiting to go home to my new 20 Meg Interweb connection and some 75 year old bint in Sveeden gets a 40Gbps line installed.

A 75 year old woman from Karlstad in central Sweden has been thrust into the IT history books - with the world's fastest internet connection.

Sigbritt Löthberg's home has been supplied with a blistering 40 Gigabits per second connection, many thousands of times faster than the average residential link and the first time ever that a home user has experienced such a high speed.

OMG. Think of the porn!!!!!!!

Sigbritt will now be able to enjoy 1,500 high definition HDTV channels simultaneously. Or, if there is nothing worth watching there, she will be able to download a full high definition DVD in just two seconds.

That could be 1500 high definition porn movies!!!

But Sigbritt, who had never had a computer until now, is no ordinary 75 year old. She is the mother of Swedish internet legend Peter Löthberg who, along with Karlstad Stadsnät, the local council's network arm, has arranged the connection.

"This is more than just a demonstration," said network boss Hafsteinn Jonsson.
"As a network owner we're trying to persuade internet operators to invest in faster connections. And Peter Löthberg wanted to show how you can build a low price, high capacity line over long distances," he told The Local.

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The secret behind Sigbritt's ultra-fast connection is a new modulation technique which allows data to be transferred directly between two routers up to 2,000 kilometres apart, with no intermediary transponders.

Now, this is cool stuff, don't get me wrong, but it's a single connection. You couldn't even have a neighborhood set up like this without crushing routers somewhere. You can have a 50,000 gallon drum of water, but you can't drink it all. Not without a lot of trips to the loo, anyway.

But here in the states, we do kind of get screwed. Other countries get blistering speeds like Japan (from what I hear, avg. is 100Mbps. You need it for all the tentacle porn I guess) but then again, they don't tend to have the overbearing regulations or the large infrastructure we have. We have to be thrilled with 20Mbps connections (and pay out the wazoo for them).

Still.... 40Gbps....