Swedish woman gets superfast Internet

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STOCKHOLM, Sweden - She is a latecomer to the information superhighway, but 75-year-old Sigbritt Lothberg is now cruising the Internet with a dizzying speed. Lothberg's 40 gigabits-
per-second fiber-optic connection in Karlstad is believed to be the fastest residential
uplink in the world, Karlstad city officials said.

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.

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.