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Last year Sigbritt Löthberg was connected to the internet with a 40Gbps line, at the age of 75. Her son, some sort of Internet expert (Read: Cisco Executive Peter Löthberg) , was the one that decided she needed the world’s fastest internet connection, at the time.
Now the company that provides her the connection, Karlstad Stadsnät, says that she mostly uses it to dry her laundry. God forbid that in Sweden, the home of the Pirate Bay, she’d try timing an HD movie download, or maybe try downloading a ton of music and seeing how long it goes, no, let’s hang our laundry on it.
Worse yet is that according to Hafsteinn Jonsson, a spokesman for the ISP, they are going to upgrade her to 100Gbps over the summer. With that fast of an internet connection any halfway intelligent person would start their own little ISP and capitalize, not drape their laundry on the DTE equipment just because it gets warm.
3 Responses to “40Gbps Internet connection used to dry laundry – grandma’s got a new bag”
Andrew Servania March 31, 2008
Man.. as a 19-year-old, I wish I had a super-fast connection like that.. I’d download the whole internet if I could. And that lady uses it only for laundry..? Why da hell would she need even more speed? Chatting and reading e-mails can be done on dial-up! Oh well.. the unfairness in this world..
+3Ducky April 1, 2008
THIS IS STUPID, I can barely get 300KBs download and she gets that much.
+1nev April 2, 2008
He could at least get her a decent looking modern computer and monitor!
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