40 Gbps Super Fast Residential Internet Now Possible In Sweden
We had an interesting discussion earlier on countries that have the fastest bandwidth speeds. The data from the OECD however, wasn’t quite up to date. A report from Yahoo! News came up recently stating that a 75-year-old woman is now cruising the Internet with a 40 Gbps fibre-optic connection in Karlstad, Sweden and is believed to be the fastest residential uplink in the world, according to Karlstad city officials. It turned out that she was the mother of Peter Lothberg, networking expert who said he wanted to demonstrate the new technology while providing a computer link for his mother. The report also gave a hint of how fast the connection is:
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.
I have an average of about 50 Gigabytes of uploaded and downloaded data per month with my 384Kbps ADSL connection. This is a small figure compared to those with fibre optic lines, assuming that no quota is set by the ISP. If I had a 40 Gbps connection, I’d be an ISP in our village. Too bad Pete Lothberg’s mother only uses her Internet connection to read Web-based newspapers.
July 20th, 2007 at 11:51
40 GBPS!!!! OMG!! Sweden has always been the heaven for internet and file sharing. Damn i wanna go to Sweden. Do you anything about the pricing??
Man even though she has 40GBPS she uses only for reading newspaper?? Shes nuts. Somebody go kick her into reality!
July 22nd, 2007 at 8:02
Haha!
I’d teach her how to share files. I’d run a server with this kind of Internet connection.
July 23rd, 2007 at 17:24
40GBPS… I want to move there, NOW! Eeek! That’s amazing!
July 25th, 2007 at 1:59
Nothing like an old grandma with a fast internet connection to make me jealous. And this is after my DSL company just decided to lower my speeds
I love fiber, and I hope in my lifetime it is widespread and in my home.
July 25th, 2007 at 11:38
Hey Gabriel,
That’s a HUGE bandwidth! The fastest here in Singapore at the moment is only 100Mbps on Cable. I know many friends who would do anything to get their hands on that 40Gbps. Hopefully our local ISP’s trial for Fibre-to-home network works out fine and we can get some cheaper and faster plans here.
July 28th, 2007 at 22:53
in contrast,
my upstream only 40kbps. :((
August 2nd, 2007 at 0:31
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August 9th, 2007 at 6:34
WOW! Thanks for this bit of news that I just discovered Gabe. I think I should move to Sweden.
December 4th, 2007 at 20:11
Wish I had that fast connection too
March 11th, 2008 at 18:47
Fiber optic from Verizon is probably the best service I can find here in America. I’m starting to love Verizon more than cable because upload speed is incredible. However, I think I need to move to Sweeden.
May 5th, 2008 at 18:27
A complete movie in 2 seconds? My internet is not THAT fast…..I’m jealous! lol
May 5th, 2008 at 18:29
I think if I had that connection I’d still complain, about something! :-/
May 16th, 2008 at 19:40
Well Sweden has been one of the leading in internet bandwidth and networking…Not everyone has that speed as her but almost everyone in sweden have atleast 100Mbps. I live in Sweden, Stockholm and that was a good news to hear. It means soon most of the homes will be able to have connection like that. We use internet for everything here in sweden.
May 17th, 2008 at 0:14
How does that speed compare with IP6 ‘dark cable’ that apparently is being developed and uses local hubs to transfer info from what I have heard as opposed to packet push from a small series of servers?
May 21st, 2008 at 8:46
Reminds me of the story just a while back about a Russian teenager who was able to achieve significant speeds - I believe over 20 GB/S - using homemade and store bought items and his computer. Once day information will be instantly accessible.
May 25th, 2008 at 7:12
It’s just a matter of time before information is sent using even less resistant mediums. Eventually the speed information is sent at will drastically overshadow the amount of information created daily.
June 2nd, 2008 at 19:55
That is fantastic, because I am struggling with my internet connection in the UK, but I am sure that it is a problem with the ISP, I am sure that I need a new cable modem. So it is good to see how other people are getting along with their Internet connection.
June 5th, 2008 at 5:21
Wow its amazing how the World keeps progressing and progressing technically pseaking. Especially in the realms of Internet and computers.
I think its safe to say if any individual does not embrace the technology revolution like this grandmother did herself, they are losing it in life.
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June 7th, 2008 at 3:04
At first this story made me smile, imagine a 75 year old with that speed of connection. Then I ws really jealous, my measly 8mb connection is always making me wait for one application to finish before I can start something else.
Imagne how much more you could get done in a day with that sort of power - I also wonder just how much impact this would have on peoples lives?
June 10th, 2008 at 5:33
I was doing research on this very topic and I find it very interesting that America doesn’t lead in something! HAHA
June 17th, 2008 at 7:12
I find that much of the world is open creatively to new ventures, but it simply ends up that a large amount of the funds and opportunities are in the US, which is why the US might appear to develop many of the good ideas. However, much of the new creative leaps are being created overseas, and developed (and purchased) in the US.
June 21st, 2008 at 7:34
I need someone like this person around my businesses, I am tech-dumb and am constantly running into minor and major problems with the technology side of things.
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June 26th, 2008 at 12:37
Man, too bad I don’t live in Sweden with all the internet surfing I do.
June 26th, 2008 at 12:47
I’m on a 10Mbps line and use about 90-100GB per month. It takes me a solid hour to download 4GB of backup data from online storage. 40Gbps would be friggin’ awesome!
June 28th, 2008 at 20:16
Wow, those speeds are sooooo far away from the dial up connections of not so long ago, it’s amazing how the speed capabilities are increasing so dramatically isn’t it ?
June 28th, 2008 at 21:58
It’s funny to imagine that! I have a 2mb connection, when I read the article I was interpreting it as 40Megabit connection (which would already be really fast) but 40Gigabit is super overkill! It says there that she can download a full length movie in 2 seconds, but you would propably need a real fast computer to take full advantage of the downloading speed for big files!
Thanks for the post, I’m hoping I can someday have a 100mbit connection at home! Would be enough for me!!
June 28th, 2008 at 22:57
My dad is always complaining about his network connection. He plays games online and believes he loses because he is seeing the past. lol
July 4th, 2008 at 13:37
Hi Gabriel,
oh mind, this is a super fast connection there, I was wondering how much is the subscription fees will be. How I wish I could have this kind of internet connection speed, guess it will not happen in my country in the next 5 years, lol!
July 6th, 2008 at 19:22
That’s so sick.. 2 secs for the whole movie ? In my country that will cost thousands of dollar … I wish they will use the same fiber optic here…
July 12th, 2008 at 13:05
reppin Sweden!
July 15th, 2008 at 9:12
I have to say that was truly nice of Peter to be thinking of his mother and wanting to her to have intstant access to the Internet. Do 75 year old women cruise the net?