Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Snails Edge Out ADSL

Posted by timothy on from the little-tiny-station-wagons dept.

Anonymous writes "Dear Sirs, Following our experiment last year, and after long preparations, we have successfully proved that certain gastropods called African giant snails can be faster then ADSL and ... pigeons. The system we have used, called SNAP (SNAil-based data transfer Protocol), uses biological carriers (snails), and, for the first time, taking advantages of the unique merits of the wheel for data transfer. More details can be found here."

8 of 205 comments (clear)

  1. Today is April 26th by nizo · · Score: 4, Insightful

    But I bet it is April 1 in some universe somewhere. I wonder if a grain or two of salt increases throughput or causes more transmission errors?

    --
    I Am My Own Worst Enemy
  2. Re:In the blog by mrmojo · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Well that's what you get when you constantly 'harmonize' your country's IP laws with US laws in return for trade.

  3. Re:In the blog by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Australia would like to that you for your Free Trade Agreement.

    That is all.

  4. Beware by Jeremi · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Oh sure, it sounds good at first, but beware of the Curse of the Fast Snails!

    --


    I don't care if it's 90,000 hectares. That lake was not my doing.
  5. That expirement is flawed by Chris+Kamel · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Shouldn't the time to burn the dvds be calculated and added to the transfer time?

    And I'm trying so hard to take this seriously

    --
    The following statement is true
    The preceding statement is false
  6. Summary of comments by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    If I put {hugeamount} of {storagedevice} in/on {transportationdevice or animal} the bandwidth I get is {reallylargenumber}. The latency though I get from {transportationdevice or animal} sucks.

    So if I put an even {ridiculouslyhugeammount} of {largerstoragedevice} in/on {strongeranimal or largertransportationdevice} the bandwidth is {evenlargernumber}. The latency though I get from {strongeranimal or largertransportationdevice} still sucks.

    What we need is {fasteranimal or fastertransportationdevice} which also is {strongeranimal or largertransportationdevice}. That would be neat.

    ps. What is it with you moderators to mod up the 10 comments with identical content!?

  7. Re:But of course... by hairykrishna · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Ah ha! Enough time has passed that people can get away with jokes about the WTC

    --
    "Physics is to math as sex is to masturbation." -R. Feynman
  8. your math fu is weak by chrish · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Do the numbers in the article include time to burn the snail DVDs and then read the data back off of them at the end point? What about the time required to attach the DVDs to the snail harness (I'll assume they've got a harnessed snail ready while burning the DVDs)...

    Probably still several orders of magnitude faster than dial-up.

    --
    - chrish