40Gbps Internet Connection Used For Drying The Laundry

2 April 2008 14 Comments

What would you do if you would have the fastest internet connection in the world? Well, here is what Sigbritt Löthberg (photo), the Swedish that actually has it, uses it for: drying her laundry. With the 40Gbps speed you can download a full DVD in just a second and browse the web like your computer’s folders.

Right now, the 75 year old lady was taken the kit away for further testing in a different location, but Hafsteinn Jonsson, leading the fiber network operation for Karlstad Stadsnät, stated that they are considering giving her a 100Gbps connection in the summer. ‘Then she’ll be able to dry all her neighbors’ laundry too’, the same man joked afterwards.

Peter Löthberg, Sigbritt’s son, is behind the project that aimed at demonstrating how a cheap low capacity fibre line can be built over long distances. The secret of the ultra-speed connection is a modulation technique that allows data to be transferred between two routers at a 2,000 kilometers one from the other directly, excluding any intermediary transponders.

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14 Comments »

Chase said:

If I would give my left leg for something like that, is that sad?

# 3 April 2008 at 12:28 pm

Ted said:

I want that hi-spped connection! Absolutely great!

# 3 April 2008 at 2:45 pm

Mike said:

Yeah you can download a DVD in a second but only if the upload off the server is fast enough…..but it doesn’t matter, I am still drooling.

# 3 April 2008 at 3:38 pm

Joel said:

“With the 40Gbps speed you can download a full DVD in just a second and browse the web like your computer’s folders.”

Of course that’s utter nonsense. Bandwidth of any particular website will still be limited by all the other pieces in the chain, especially the originating server and its pipe. And never mind the ability of your local rig to process net traffic at that rate. All this means is that your local connection is not likely to be the bottleneck.

# 3 April 2008 at 3:53 pm

Franklin said:

I don’t understand how this would work. Can someone explain how the internet can dry someone’s clothes? Please?

# 3 April 2008 at 4:28 pm

Anon said:

Why would they give an old lady a super fast internet connection? Or ‘give’ anyone it? For testing purposes, it would make a lot more sense to give it to a university or someone who will use it for something different than drying their clothes… Pretty much a wasted effort…

# 3 April 2008 at 4:50 pm

Aflon said:

They (her scientist son) just used her home as one end of the test. Some of the equipment was warm enough to dry clothes, but of course she didnt.

# 3 April 2008 at 9:16 pm

Hunter said:

WOW!!! i wish i had that i agree with chase i would give my leg for that

# 4 April 2008 at 3:04 am

Tage said:

The actual router for this project generates alot of heat and is placed in her garage… thats why she uses it for drying her laudry.
She was “given” this connection becaus her son that works on the project (see article) thought that her garage had the perfect location for testing, ie between two major univeritys in Sweden.

Source: http://www.nyteknik.se

# 4 April 2008 at 4:45 pm

Trav said:

So that means, if she was with Telstra, she could use up her monthly download limit in less than five seconds.

# 6 April 2008 at 1:12 am

Aciid Bu5t0r said:

if she was with Telenet, she could use up her monthly bandwith (up+down) in 1/4th of a second. sad ..

# 6 April 2008 at 5:55 pm

Thetinguy said:

I doubt he computer can take advantage of it. Assuming she had gigabit ethernet, she would need 40 or so cables to actually be able to use all that bandwidth with her computer.

# 7 April 2008 at 2:59 am

Diane Drinkwater said:

Wow! Our internet just got faster but it’s still limited by how fast I can read! And some webservers are capped so they don’t die when peoeple use them!

# 7 April 2008 at 7:46 am

Drew Q said:

I’m fairly sure that even if some network were there for her to have a fast enough upload rate to utilize her connection, the transfer would be bottlenecked by the server’s HD Read speed and her computer’s HD write speed. Of course, who wouldn’t mind having a net connection so fast you have to wait for new hard drives to come out…

# 14 April 2008 at 6:49 am

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