[LINK] read & weep - one household in Sweden gets 40gb/s

[Adam Todd]

At 05:33 PM 13/07/2007, David Goldstein wrote:
>This story is something we can only dream of here...
>
>Sigbritt, 75, has world's fastest broadband
>A 75 year old woman from Karlstad in central 
>Sweden has been thrust into the IT history books 
>- with the world's fastest internet connection. 
>Sigbritt Löthberg's home has been supplied with 
>a blistering 40 Gigabits per second connection, 
>many thousands of times faster than the average 
>residential link and the first time ever that a 
>home user has experienced such a high speed.
>http://www.thelocal.se/7869/20070712/

You missed the important bits:

 > Sigbritt will now be able to enjoy 1,500 high definition HDTV channels
 > simultaneously. Or, if there is nothing worth watching there, she will
 > be able to download a full high definition DVD in just two seconds.

Thrilling, hopw they buy her one of those 
Panasonic 261 cm Plasma's!  Hard to watch 1500 HD 
channels on a 1200 pixel wide screen :)

 > "The most difficult part of the whole project was installing Windows
 > on Sigbritt's PC," said Jonsson.

Um, I'd have thought, they'd have installed a Linux system for his mum!  Woops!