OT - Think your data transfer is slow?

Agent420

...· I bet it's faster than a pigeon

"JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - A South African company on Wednesday proved it was faster to transmit data by carrier pigeon than to send it using the country's leading internet service provider.

Local news agency SAPA reported the 11-month-old pigeon, Winston, took one hour and eight minutes to fly the 50 miles from Unlimited IT's offices near Pietermaritzburg to the coastal city of Durban with a data card strapped to its leg.
Including downloading, the transfer took two hours, six minutes and 57 seconds — the time it took for only four percent of the data to be transferred using a line provided by Telkom."

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Turns out there is a Wikipedia entry for IPoAC (IP over Avian Carriers)

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Post Edited (Agent420) : 9/10/2009 4:50:26 PM GMT

sylvie369

Wow. If my email were that slow, my productivity would go WAY up.

Do they have a system that keeps the phone from working too? That'd be a godsend.

CounterRotatingProps

Forget the Avian Carriers! - here on the coast, we use IPiaBTiTO (IP in a Bottle Tossed into The Ocean)

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Leon

Back in the days of 300 baud modems I once spent over 48 hours on line downloading a large file from a mainframe in Belgium.

Leon

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Searider

Those were the days. 300 Baud modems that cost $1000 and we were happy to get them.

Of course we were not sending gigabyte files back and forth then either.

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