Old Lady Internet speed record

[mikesgroovin]

THE NEGATIVE

1) She is old

2) She feels as if she needs such a speed....

3) She thinks that it will actually perform that fast

4) I will break her speed record in 20 years and then die knowing I did AT LEAST 40 things SHE WISHED she did but she couldn't because she was too busy surfing the interwebs at 1/2 the speed she actually bought with her waste of cash. (Like... fly a plane.... CHECK!... thats 1)

5) She is old

6) She is alone

7) She is old

8) She is alone

9) I spent $0 and I can download a movie to a hotel in Virgina at a hotel I setup with trunked dual gig connections at a great speed (2 hour movie downoad/torrents in 30 minutes) Then I can D/L it to my home... and extra 40 minutes on a private line....
.... She obviously has a great deal of money and a great lack of logic.

10) If I had enough money/stupidity to put myself into a paper for "Quickest connection" right now, I'd pass..... someone else will do it faster in a month... and she will be forgotten. It's the truth.

 

[TheEnd187]

She doesnt pay for it her son owns an isp or osmeting and hooked her up

 

[EricB]

Not to mention this is old news, and that it requires well over 150K of equipment, not to mention using "dark" fiber, of course this is a HOME connection doesnt even come close to taiwan which has the fastest connection

they were at 50 mbps 3-4 years ago

 

[TheEnd187]

they awere at GB's a few years ago AOL itself was just a big Fiber Backbone, just leasing out ip's to everyone

 

[hilowe]

...2) She feels as if she needs such a speed....

3) She thinks that it will actually perform that fast...

...someone else will do it faster in a month...

It was done as a proof of concept.

Here's a different story that attempts to explain what they were trying to prove.

Sweden: 75-year-old Sigbritt Lothberg from Karlstad, who has never used a computer before, now has what is currently believed to be the fastest residential broadband in the world.

Her 40 gigabits-per-second fiber-optic connection is capable of downloading a HD-DVD film in two seconds. The connection was set up by her son, Peter Lothberg from Cisco, as a demonstration of a new router system.

According to Peter the new system will allow data transfer between routers without transponders over a range of 1,240 miles. The company "wanted to show that that there are no limitations to Internet speed."

75-Year-Old Computer Newbie Has World's Fastest Residential Internet Connection

 

[Poemaster]

hah She is playing WoW

 

[pepsimax]

wow imagine 40giabits of pron a second. wtf, that would be more than enough for a lifetime. that sort of internet is only good for pron.

 

[Nick]

i think it has to be sed she looks young for 75

 

[EricB]

wow imagine 40giabits of pron a second. wtf, that would be more than enough for a lifetime. that sort of internet is only good for pron.

Duh... for me. I just realize that you were talking gigabit not megabyte.

 

[peterhuang913]

Duh... for me. I just realize that you were talking gigabit not megabyte.

Tbit isn't too far away now...