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Old 07-18-2007, 01:19 PM   #1
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75-year-old likely set Internet speed record

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40 gigabits-per-second fiber-optic connection in Karlstad is believed to be the fastest residential uplink in the world...

In less than 2 seconds, Lothberg can download a full-length movie on her home computer —many thousand times faster than most residential connections
You would need a very large hard drive to go along with that.
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Old 07-18-2007, 01:23 PM   #2
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THat's all great and wonderful provided as the place that is uploading to you can handle the speed.
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Old 07-20-2007, 12:30 AM   #3
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His mother isn't exactly making the most of her high-speed connection. She only uses it to read Web-based newspapers.
Pardon me while I go bang my head against a brick wall.
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Old 07-20-2007, 04:57 AM   #4
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Hey, I read about that too. The article was a bit confusing though and I think that that speed is theoretical and not actual. I think that her computer waws tethered to her son's computer? lol, I dunno it's 6am and time for bed.
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Old 07-20-2007, 05:43 AM   #5
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Maybe the 75 year old is the real reson the Internet Crashed
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Old 07-20-2007, 09:04 AM   #6
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A whole movie in 2 seconds?!!?!! Wow!! --

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That's funny
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Old 07-20-2007, 09:44 AM   #7
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Maybe the 75 year old is the real reson the Internet Crashed
Thanks for sharing that video, gave me plenty of laughs this morning.
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Old 07-20-2007, 10:15 AM   #8
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Very nice...now how do you do that?
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Old 07-20-2007, 12:41 PM   #9
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hahaha, good video!
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After seeing that video...I sorta wanna "Ctrl+Alt+Del" myself.
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Well at least it wasn't me killing the internet this time.
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Old 07-20-2007, 02:09 PM   #12
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For the truley die hards that want to help incase there is another crash:

Backup the Internet Here .
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And another good one
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How bittersweet would it be if you had the hard drive capacity to do it, and then had dial-up?

Imagine the daily updates...
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I think I saw part of the article and she was hooked to a router linked to another router..?

would be nice to load a movie in 2 seconds...still takes me 15 minutes on my network...ouch
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Old 07-20-2007, 10:14 PM   #16
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Here is a cool articles that relates to the topic of this thread:

http://www.technologyreview.com/Infotech/19073/
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Old 07-21-2007, 11:37 AM   #17
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You can also Turn Off the Internet from Here
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