Pigeon > ADSL in South Africa
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11 Sep 2009, 01:46
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AN UNORTHODOX RACE in South Africa has revealed that it is faster to transmit 4GB of data via carrier pigeon than it is to send it over the country's main ADSL services.
An IT company in Durban decided to hold a competition to test a theory once discussed over a watercooler. Would it be faster to use a carrier pigeon to send data than to use the country's biggest web firm, Telkom? Bad news for Telkom - yes, it is.
In the race held yesterday between Howick and Hillcrest, a pigeon named Winston managed to transport a 4GB memory stick 60 miles in just two hours, the same amount of time it took the firm's web connection to transmit just four percent of the data. Of course Telkom said that slow speeds at its customer end have nothing to do with it.
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1533142/pigeon-protocol-offers-faster-delivery
An IT company in Durban decided to hold a competition to test a theory once discussed over a watercooler. Would it be faster to use a carrier pigeon to send data than to use the country's biggest web firm, Telkom? Bad news for Telkom - yes, it is.
In the race held yesterday between Howick and Hillcrest, a pigeon named Winston managed to transport a 4GB memory stick 60 miles in just two hours, the same amount of time it took the firm's web connection to transmit just four percent of the data. Of course Telkom said that slow speeds at its customer end have nothing to do with it.
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1533142/pigeon-protocol-offers-faster-delivery
but amusing none the less
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rvU4Qs8Hfk
GG fail excuse, "My grades being shit has nothing to do with me" unless of course the receiving end was hosted by another ISP, which makes the experiment unreliable :< Funny story regardless.