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Pigeons' Bandwidth Advantage Quantified
An anonymous reader submits "A well documented test took
place in the north of Israel, in presence of several dozen Internet geeks and
experts. During the test, 3 homing pigeons carried 4 GB (gigabytes) for 100 km
distance, achieving, what apparently looks as pigeons' world record in data
transfer to a given distance. Bandwidth achieved by the pigeons was 2.27
Mbps...Transferring a similar volume of information through a common uplink of
ADSL line would have taken no less than 96 hours..."
...African, or European?
pong **** CARRIER LOST
Don't you mean CARRIER PIGEON LOST?
When you have nothing left to burn you must set yourself on fire
Was it african or european?
You would be correct, using the term bandwidth loosely, if the number of pigeons stayed constant. However, using the strict definition, bandwidth is totally unrelated to line latency/round trip time.
So, basically, what you are saying is "If you define 'bandwidth' according to a strict and unusual definition that nobody actually uses in real life, I'm precisely correct."
I don't care what your book or professor said bandwidth is defined as. In real life people define the word "bandwidth" to mean "the amount of data that can be transmitted per unit of time". Until now, I have never heard it used to mean anything else.
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