75-Year-Old Woman Has Fastest Net Access
A 75-year-old woman in Sweden who has never owned a computer before now has the WORLD'S FASTEST HOME INTERNET CONNECTION -- a whopping 40 Gigabits per second. (That's fast enough to download a hi-def movie in two seconds.) Her son is Cisco executive Peter Löthberg, who arranged the connection as a demonstration of how long-distance, ultra fast connections are inexpensive and easy to set up. The most difficult part of all this was reportedly installing Windows.
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"long-distance, ultra fast connections are inexpensive and easy to set up"
Yeah, if you've got Cisco footing the bill for the equipment. List price of Cisco's 40G-capable router is roughly $450,000 USD - and that doesn't include the 40G transponders. Unless he's also installed a really nice PC he'll just have to drop the service down to 1Gbps anyway.
I thought it was gigabyte?
Sorry, pedantacism is my flaw.
"I thought it was gigabyte?"
No, telecom uses bits rather than bytes since a byte isn't always 8 bits (for GbE it's 10 bits, for example, Google 8B10B line encoding) :)
Is lack of vision, bloodymindedness and greed- stopping me from plugging the net straight into my head and living in an online utopia where everyone is a buff avatar? Buff avatars who save the world with our vastly enhanced, mind-powers of course. Anyway, whatevs.
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