Homing Pigeons FTW!

From Slashdot:
http://idle.slashdot.org/story/09/09/10/0318203/Pigeon-Turns-Out-to-be-Faster...

"The results are in: it's faster to send your data via an airborne carrier than it is through the pipes. As discussed Tuesday, a company in South Africa called Unlimited IT, frustrated by terribly slow Internet speeds, decided to prove their point by sending an actual homing pigeon with a "data card" strapped to its leg from one of their offices to another while at the same time uploading the same amount of data to the same destination via their ISPs data lines. The media outlet reporting this triumph said that it took the pigeon just over 1 hour to make the 80km/50mile flight, whereas it took over 2 hours to transfer just 4% of that data."

Wow... That is just amazing.

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• qiranger
• south
• korea
• africa
• internet
• speed
• slow
• fast
• trasnfer
• file
• isp

[TheXboxgrinder]

being a south african and having to deal with the speed of the internet i will tell you it is FUCKING FRUSTRATING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[vidaminfeeder2]

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[Mobbs1]

You read this on the BBC news? I remember reading about it too. You'd need some pretty fast pigeons to out-do Korea. Maybe a Hawk...

[VirtuallyAddicted]

Reminds me when I was trying to wifi in Thailand and Canada. :(

I just changed internet providers here. The last one was a pain in the arse. Slowest ADSL I ever had in South Korea.

[fehquig]

LOL And I thought mine was slow...

[teamgh0ul]

I love a fast internet connection...now only if it were free...

[MGSGeneral]

Well for one thing, now I finally do know how fast a pigeon can fly... I find it quite surprising

[drevil5001]

The problems is that there has always only been one cable connecting south africa to the rest of the internet. A second one has just been completed which should help but another problem is that the communications industry has been stifled by the monopoly that telkom holds on the industry.

[Entactogenetic]

I'd shoot myself if I was forced to go back to dial-up.

Seriously, though, I would probably just give up on the internet if it took that long. I have better things to do than watch a webpage load for 15 minutes.

[ChristopherMast]

FUCKIN' HILARIOUS!