Sigbritt, 75, has world's fastest broadband

[SilentTrigger]

"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."

Source: http://www.thelocal.se/7869/20070712/

Wohoo maybe we can retake the speed record again!

[Chrispy]

Whoa, that's fast.

Chris

[Stephen]

I want one

[Mstenger404]

"But Sigbritt, who had never had a computer until now, is no ordinary 75 year old."

"The most difficult part of the whole project was installing Windows on Sigbritt's PC,"

[SilentTrigger]

Yeah she use those 40 gigabits to browse Swedish newspapers online

[Hellfighter]

75yrs old women using that high speed connection? i have a feeling she not the real person who be using it, think she be happy with a ADSL or cable to use online.

yep get rich off a oldlie women get her buy something she don't really need.

so easy to con a old folk into buying something they really don't need to have. sad it happens a lot.

[SilentTrigger]

It's not a con, it's her son that has installed the line aswell as the computer for her. They made the line to prove that you can make high speed connections fairly cheap for residentials. It's part of the ongoing Internet2 competition for the land speed record of transfering data. Japan has the current speed record before that it was Sweden, it's a world wide battle where Japan, USA and Sweden basicly takes it from each other. This is an attempt to break the japanese record, it's looking good too I might add.

Of course it can be a con to gain publicity but an attempt to con your own mother? Doubt it

The time will tell when the speed over distance number has been calculated if this is a hox or not and if it will break the current record or not.

EDIT: Current record is held by Tokyo University at around 9 Gbps

Video: http://svt.se/svt/play/video.jsp?a=866409

Can see the massive modem taking care of the 40Gb/s connection to Stockholm, from Stockholm to California at 20 Gb/s

He's currently a consultant for Cisco Systems

He's of course not the only one behind it, there's more then 500 people involved.