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Pigeon Turns Out To Be Faster Than S. African Net

Posted by samzenpus on from the fast-and-pigeon-fast dept.

inject_hotmail.com writes "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."

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  1. Not a fair comparison by localman57 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Fine. So your data rate is higher. But the fact is, a carrier pigeon is only half-duplex, whereas your network connection, though slower, is full-duplex. I bet your carrier-pigeon vendor didn't talk about that part, did he?

    1. Re:Not a fair comparison by CRCulver · · Score: 5, Funny

      I bet your carrier-pigeon vendor didn't talk about that part, did he?

      Not only that, but his assistant kept touching my wife's ass, and after he wrapped up his sales presentation and left, we noticed all the silverware was gone. I'd advise all to keep well away from these carrier pigeon vendors, even if they seem slick.

  2. Cloud computing by Errol+backfiring · · Score: 5, Funny

    This give a new meaning to "cloud computing". Just look at the clouds to see the results coming in!

    --
    Nae king! Nae laird! Nae yurrupiean pressedent! We willna be fooled again!
  3. Take that! by palemantle · · Score: 5, Funny

    They forgot to mention that they also got the pigeon to stop and poop all over the Telkom bosses enroute.

  4. Re:Pigeons RULE! by dintech · · Score: 5, Funny

    For the love of God, just don't try to send any data throgh it's secure socket...