Swedish Woman, 75, Has World's Fastest Broadband Connection
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}She is a latecomer to the information superhighway, but 75-year-old Sigbritt Lothberg is now cruising the Internet with a dizzying speed.
Lothberg's 40 gigabits-per-second fiber-optic connection in Karlstad is believed to be the fastest residential uplink in the world, Karlstad city officials said.
In less than 2 seconds, Lothberg can download a full-length movie on her home computer — many thousand times faster than most residential connections, said Hafsteinn Jonsson, head of the Karlstad city network unit.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Jonsson and Lothberg's son, Peter, worked together to install the connection.
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The speed is reached using a new modulation technique that allows the sending of data between two routers placed up to 1,240 miles apart, without any transponders in between, Jonsson said.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}"We wanted to show that that there are no limitations to Internet speed," he said.
Peter Lothberg, who is a networking expert, said he wanted to demonstrate the new technology while providing a computer link for his mother.
"She's a brand new Internet user," Lothberg said by phone from California, where he lives. "She didn't even have a computer before."
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}His mother isn't exactly making the most of her high-speed connection. She only uses it to read Web-based newspapers.