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Internet Slower Than Rat, Horse, Rabbit, and Dog
An anonymous reader writes "CNET demonstrates that the internet is actually slower than every major animal. It's even slower than the apocryphal tortoise over a mile. In order to prove this they 'pitted the world's top animals against the Web over a one-mile course, transferring 32GB of data.' The results of the experiment showed the Internet to be the worst way to transfer data over short distances. 'If you put 32GB of data on a bite-proof USB key and strapped it to a cheetah, for example, it would be available to read at the destination 11 times faster than the Internet. The cheetah takes 30.9 minutes, the Internet over 6 hours!' Pigeon, horse and dog also perform very well at transferring 32GB of data, and even the lowly rat is over 8 times faster than the internet. CNET suggests the internet 'should hang its head in shame over its ranking in the one-mile speed test.'" Since it's already been proven that a pigeon was faster, I guess it was time to quantify mammals.
yeah, but the latency will kill you!
RFC 1149 wins again.
Tho you are really better off using RFC 2549 instead.
1984 was not supposed to be an instruction manual.
What does 'over the internet' mean? 1200 baud? OC 768?
The Kruger Dunning explains most post on
I feel the same today on 8mbit as I did with 56k.... I like the story. Real life is always bigger than this pathetic computer and all its goals.
over a one-mile course [...] The cheetah takes 30.9 minutes
God damn - that's gotta be the slowest cheetah I've ever heard. Isn't the "four minute mile" a target for the average sprinter? And the cheetah is more than 7 times slower than that?!?!?
"Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway." - Andrew S. Tanenbaum