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World's fastest internet connection 'used to dry laundry'

Last summer a 75-year-old woman from Karlstad became the envy of internet users worldwide. With her blistering 40 gigabits per second connection, Sigbritt Löthberg had the world's fastest internet connection - many thousands of times faster than the average residential link and the first time ever that a home user had experienced such a high speed. So, after nine months with the ability to download a full high definition DVD in just two seconds or access 1,500 high definition HDTV channels simultaneously, how has Sigbritt's life changed? Not much, according to Hafsteinn Jonsson, who is heading up the fibre network operation for Karlstad Stadsnät. "She mostly used it to dry her laundry," he told The Local.

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From: tekhedd on 03-Jun-2008 at 02:54pm

I can't help noticing there is no proper "journalistic unit" for bits. For example, if you want size, you always talk football fields or distance from the earth to the moon (see also http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/08/24/vulture_central_standards/). Is DVDs per second a proper journalistic unit of download speed?



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