Race Pits Pigeons Against Poor UK Rural Broadband

Mark.JUK writes "Rural internet access in the United Kingdom, like many other countries around the world, is slow. So slow in fact that Trefor Davies, the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at business ISP Timico, has decided to pit a typical rural broadband connection against homing pigeons (with attached memory cards) to see which can get 200MB of HD video data across an 84 mile trip the fastest. Meanwhile a farmer will attempt to upload the same video file to YouTube before the pigeons can complete their journey. The comical stunt is designed to raise awareness of the often woeful broadband speed experienced by many people who live in remote and rural parts of their country. However Davies does admit that 'there isn't a benchmark for pigeon data speeds,' yet."

Comments

Re:African or European?

[paintballer1087]

Hmm, redundant on the first post... How does that work?

Re:African or European?

[equex]

Either because the pun in question concerns swallows not pigeons, or pun is just too obvious wich is my bet. How a Monthy Python joke can be redundant is beyond me though.