Super-fast net connection turns into tumble dryer

 

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By Barry Collins

Posted on 31 Mar 2008 at 15:13

A 75-year-old Swedish woman with the "world's fastest internet connection" has found a novel use for her high-speed equipment.

The Swedish silver surfer made headlines across the world last year when her internet expert son fitted her house with a staggering 40Gb/sec connection.

But instead of using her uberfast connection to download high-def movies in the bat of an eyelid, Sigbritt Löthberg used her blistering home network for more mundane tasks. "She mostly used it to dry her laundry," Hafsteinn Jonsson, a spokesperon for fibre network operator Karlstad Stadsnät told Swedish website The Local. "It was a big bit of gear and it got pretty warm."

"We're considering giving her a 100 gigabits per second connection in the summer," added Jonsson. "Then she'll be able to dry all her neighbours' laundry too."

British surfers today found out when they might get BT's next-generation broadband, with a theoretical maximum speed of 24Mb/sec.

Some might argue that their current broadband lines are slower than washing lines, anyway.