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The Local – World’s Fastest Internet Connection ‘Used to Dry Laundry’

31st March 2008 By Leave a Comment

Magnificent. Really. A 40GB Internet connection, a fortune in state of art network gear and the quote is:

“She mostly used it to dry her laundry,” he told The Local.

“It was a big bit of gear and it got pretty warm.”

Moral of the Story: Never forget that the mainstream is very different from you.

The Local – World’s fastest internet connection ‘used to dry laundry’: “World’s fastest internet connection ‘used to dry laundry’”

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Greg Ferro is a Network Engineer/Architect, mostly focussed on Data Centre, Security Infrastructure, and recently Virtualization. He has over 20 years in IT, in wide range of employers working as a freelance consultant including Finance, Service Providers and Online Companies. He is CCIE#6920 and has a few ideas about the world, but not enough to really count.

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