Fast data transfer using homing pigeons

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1212214/Company-enlists-Winston-homing-pigeon-carry-data-transfer--faster-broadband.html

by steamboiler • 17 years ago

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RiderOfGiraffes• 17 years ago

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sneakernet

In various forms:

    Never underestimate the bandwidth of
        a station wagon
        a 747
        a St Bernard
    carrying a load of
        tapes
        CDs
        floppy disks.

nopassrecover• 17 years ago

Knew someone would post this.

Thing is, it doesn't make much of a point - it's 4GB, to do that in 2 hours you would have to have an upload bandwidth of very roughly 0.5 mb/s (and corresponding download bandwidth).

The thing that was most interesting to me was that it took an hour to copy it off USB (it was about the same time to move the files 60 miles than to get it off the stick!).

On a side note if the ADSL was only at 4% then they are only getting around 22kb/s so we're talking what 256k "adsl"?

Apparently the company in question had made recommendations to improve the speed that had been unaccepted but who knows what those recommendations were.

Fast data transfer using homing pigeons

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