World Pigeon faster than broadband

[H34DhUnT3r]

Broadband promised to unite the world with super-fast data delivery - but in South Africa it seems the web is still no faster than a humble pigeon.

A Durban IT company pitted an 11-month-old bird armed with a 4GB memory stick against the ADSL service from the country's biggest web firm, Telkom.

Winston the pigeon took two hours to carry the data 60 miles - in the same time the ADSL had sent 4% of the data.

BBC News - SA pigeon 'faster than broadband'

news.bbc.co.uk

 

[Samael88]

This is summed up with one word: OWNED!:shades:

 

[BlackRose]

Where can I buy this Pidgeon for my internet xD
And I am also using Broadband

 

[Darthfett]

I could take a 1TB hard drive on my bike to the school faster than it would take to upload it all. This isn't really News of any sort. If the pigeon was carrying a 128mb flash drive, it would be done before the pigeon got there.

I'll admit that 163.84mb (0.04 * 4096mb) isn't very fast for 2 hours, but this is a really, REALLY unrealistic and useless comparison.

 

[UnknowVector]

Never underestimate the bandwidth of a carrier pigeon full of memory sticks.

 

[ReVolver]

Never underestimate the bandwidth of a carrier pigeon full of memory sticks.

But the more memory sticks you put on the pigeon the slower it will get, think logicly

 

[Whitesock]

But the more memory sticks you put on the pigeon the slower it will get, think logicly

Then it's time for an upgrade!

Glass Pane's new hawk carrier.

 

[Darthfett]

Then it's time for an upgrade!

What if two swallows carried it together?

 

[ElderKingpin]

i live in america, i dont know what people are doing in south africa

 

[Tru_Power22]

What if two swallows carried it together?

This is awesome. Then you could carry a coconut filled with usb thumb drives!

 

[Jesus4Lyf]

Can the pidgeons allow us to email pies, too?

I can't yet email pies.

 

[Sevion]

>Time for an upgrade

Haha. Take a plane and stick a few servers onto it filled with data, send it to wherever, badaboom! You just sent XXX TB of data in YYY hours!!

 

[H34DhUnT3r]

this is a really, REALLY unrealistic and useless comparison.

Go Captain Obvious! =.=


It's just a fun "experiment" (if you can even call it that )

 

[Lobster]

What if two swallows carried it together?

African swallows or European swallow?

 

[Sevion]

Neither. They're a new breed: Sevion Swallows ;o

 

[Miz]

Please, us people in Florida have been using Seagulls technology to send files internationally for years. Especially for transatlantic transfers.

I mean it is more secure, there is only way you can hack these file carrying birds. Shoot them out of the sky and take their files. I mean really, its much more safer speaking most people can't aim for crap.

P.S. - This is also how the idea of Twitter came along.

 

[Sevion]

>Twitter

Do pidgeons also inspire Youtube, Twitter, and Facebook's probable combining? Into, You Twit Face?

 

[Genkora]

What if two swallows carried it together?

how does a 5 ounce bird carry 1 pound of flash drives?

 

[tom_mai78101]

Do pidgeons also inspire Youtube, Twitter, and Facebook's probable combining? Into, You Twit Face?

I thought it's YTF. The 2nd one.

how does a 5 ounce bird carry 1 pound of flash drives?

By air mail?

 

[Aqua Dragon]

how does a 5 ounce bird carry 1 pound of flash drives?

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