{"id":297,"date":"2007-08-05T09:48:01","date_gmt":"2007-08-05T16:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alleba.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/05\/the-fastest-internet\/"},"modified":"2007-08-05T09:48:01","modified_gmt":"2007-08-05T16:48:01","slug":"the-fastest-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alleba.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/05\/the-fastest-internet\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fastest Internet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wish I can say the same thing for my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alleba.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/13\/pldt-mydsl-sucks-the-saga-continues\/\">crappy MyDSL<\/a>.  This lucky 75-year-old lady in Sweden boasts a 40-gigabits-per-second fiber-optic connection, so far the fastest residential Internet speed recorded.  Sigbritt Lothberg, hardly the web cybergeek, has her son Peter, a networking expert, and his friend Hafsteinn Jonsson to thank.  Peter simply wanted to demonstrate that it was possible to achieve such blazing fast speeds.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nAt 40gbps, I can download a whole MP3 album at a blink of an eye.  To download a DVD-quality movie, it will take at most 2 seconds.  Now, doesn&#8217;t that take the &#8216;wait&#8217; out of the World Wide Wait?  I&#8217;m not an avid downloader though, but I do upload scripts a lot which can be painfully slow.  What I&#8217;ll give to bask in Sigbritt&#8217;s glory.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full (old) story <a href=\"http:\/\/biz.yahoo.com\/ap\/070719\/sweden_high_speed_internet.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wish I can say the same thing for my crappy MyDSL. This lucky 75-year-old lady in Sweden boasts a 40-gigabits-per-second fiber-optic connection, so far the fastest residential Internet speed recorded. Sigbritt Lothberg, hardly the web cybergeek, has her son Peter, a networking expert, and his friend Hafsteinn Jonsson to thank. Peter simply wanted to&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.alleba.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/05\/the-fastest-internet\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Fastest Internet<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech-news","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paJQs-4N","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alleba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alleba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alleba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alleba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alleba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alleba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alleba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alleba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alleba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}