Thursday, July 12th 2007

World's Fastest Broadband Connection — 40 Gbps

Seems like what we think as a fast broadband connection is no longer fast enough...

A 75-year-old woman from Karlstad in central Sweden has been using a 40 Gbps internet connection! Sigbritt Löthberg is the mother of Peter Löthberg - a Guru when it comes to matters of the internet - who is proving rather effectively that fiber networks can deliver a cost-effective, ultra-fast connection. A 40Gbps connection can be used to either watch 1,500 HDTV channels simultaneously or even download a whole 24 GB DVD in two seconds!
Source: SlashDot
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33 Comments on World's Fastest Broadband Connection — 40 Gbps

#26
Benpi
You don't need fibe Optikz to get a fast connection. Charter, my cable provider, claims they can give all of their customers 100Mb/s upload and download right now if they wanted to. why don't these pricks just do it?
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#27
Exceededgoku
rybotoThat's why you have ram, to buffer things. Problem with that is, the fastest connection she can make is 1Gbps, since that's all the current network controllers can handle. I'm connected at 1Gbps to my router. My friend who works in IT land says 10Gbps is the next thing. It's great that fiber can offer this, but our current network cards can't handle it.
LOL buffer data coming in at 40GBps, would love to see that in action!
No really can't imagine what would happen, blue screen instantly maybe? Or even hard-reset... :eek:
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#28
DrunkenMafia
whats the point of that, i mean fair enough if you download that quick but is there even anything out there that can put it on a disk that quick.... don't think so.

But then again I know a lot of people that do watch 1500 tv channels at the same time... :roll:
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#29
SkylinGTR26
well if you do have a connection that fast you can always brag, theres a point :D
But yeah, its still pointless having 40gbs unless you have it all plugged in somekinda network switch and then somehow convert all that bandwidth into one single line, and then somehow plug that single cable into your PC... ahhh

still pointless....
unless you used 1gbps for yourself and then hosted a bunch o' crap on the other 39gbps. Like 1000 servers for games, and U/Led a bunch o' pr0n, all at the same time.
You'd also need.... like 1pb just for storage, cause of all the pr0n/music/games/pictures/word documents/excel spreadsheets you'd need to store.
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#30
tater
Wile EHell, I'd be ecstatic to have a 1Gb connection, let alone 10 or 40. lol.
screw that...id take 50mb right here and now :D
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#31
demonbrawn
I'm just fine with my 10mb cable, thank you very much :rockout:
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#33
newconroer
pt Quote:
"a flame regist:
someone that just regists on a site to flame once and never appear again, thinking their e-penis growed 'cause there ppl pissed at him "
/end

Dammit I wish someone would have said that about me, but it's too bloody late now, post wise.


Arsewipes!
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