World's Fastest Home Internet Connection: 40 Gigabits per Second

Sweden offers a taste of the future of networking. Sigbritt Löthberg, 75 year old mother of Peter Löthberg, is the proud owner of the world's fastest home internet connection: 40 Gigabits per second.

Peter Löthberg is an internet guru. Cisco and Sprint have taken his advice on routers and even entire networks. Löthberg himself says that he was sent by God to network the planet, and it looks like he's starting at home. His mother's connection relies on a new technique for modulating the packets coming down the line.

Data can be sent over a 2000 km (1240 miles) stretch of fiber optic cable with no intervening transponders. This keeps the prices down and enables high speeds over long distances. Löthberg's goal is to show network providers that fast and cheap connections are viable, and it looks like he has succeeded.

So just what can this monster connection achieve? 1500 simultaneous HDTV channels, or a whole HD DVD in two seconds. The worst thing is, it'll probably never get used. Sigbritt Löthberg has never owned a computer before.