Swedish Woman Gets Superfast Internet

Thu Jul 19, 2007 12:58 PM EDT

business, technology, odd-news, internet, unknown, sweden, speed, high-speed, sigbritt-lothberg

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Zachary T. Jones

Damn, that's not even fair.

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3 votes

#1 - Thu Jul 19, 2007 1:26 PM EDT

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Simon L

Oooooooooooold news... :P

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#2 - Thu Jul 19, 2007 1:32 PM EDT

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macemoneta

They didn't mention (but there are photos of) the $250k CRS-1 they installed in her home to terminate the oc-768.

A standard PC can't keep up with an OC-768 either. She would need a cluster of four machines (with quad PCIe 16x slots) with 32 drives on each (total 128 drives) to read/write an oc-768 at full speed.

That doesn't describe my mom's house, but I guess folks in Sweden are different. ;)

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5 votes

#3 - Thu Jul 19, 2007 1:59 PM EDT

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agio

Neat technology, but it is being completely wasted.

I mean, how much porn is a 75 year old Swedish woman likely to download?

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5 votes

#4 - Thu Jul 19, 2007 2:08 PM EDT

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Tim.

I'll buy her house!

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2 votes

#5 - Thu Jul 19, 2007 2:54 PM EDT

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Michael D.

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

I wonder how long until she becomes a Newsvine user?

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4 votes

#6 - Thu Jul 19, 2007 3:03 PM EDT

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juleyah

Should I be ashamed of the fact that I secretly hoped they were writing about me & that I had been upgraded out of nowhere? Pshht. :)

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#7 - Thu Jul 19, 2007 4:24 PM EDT

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M. Holt

Could they at least tell us the specs on how they did it?

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#8 - Thu Jul 19, 2007 8:51 PM EDT

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