Sep
10
2009
Carrier Pigeons faster than DSL
Couldn’t help laughing at this story having spent a lot of time in South Africa in the 1990′s. Seems that they had a race to see if DSL or carrier pigeon could transfer 4GB of data faster over 100km. Guess what…the pigeons won.
Great summary on this link by Stan Schroeder
Whats interesting is that broadband speed is a function of the total network design and its usage so trying to define how fast the Internet can be pretty difficult given the uncontrolled nature of complex networks. On the other hand the physics of carrier pigeon speed, distance and the reality of memory card capacity make for a much more deterministic transport method <grin>…. Maybe we can have a race between an iPhone and a cheetah next 