Sweden is known for being the leader in Internet innovation. Today I found an article on CNN about 75-year-old Sigbritt Lothberg. She has a 40 gigabits-per-second fiber-optic connection in Karlstad, which is believed to be the fastest residential Internet connection in the world.

In less than 2 seconds, Lothberg can download a full-length movie on her home computer — many thousand times faster than most residential connections, said Hafsteinn Jonsson, head of the Karlstad city network unit.

Jonsson and Lothberg’s son, Peter, worked together to install the connection.

The speed is reached using a new modulation technique that allows the sending of data between two routers placed up to 1,240 miles apart, without any transponders in between, Jonsson said.

“We wanted to show that that there are no limitations to Internet speed,” he said.

Link: http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/07/20/superfast.net.ap/index.html