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, Sweden 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. 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.
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. "She didn't even have a computer before."
His mother isn't exactly making the most of her high-speed connection. She only uses it to read online newspapers. (info from The Associated Press)
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