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Title: SA pigeon 'faster than broadband' Post by: mobaholic on September 11, 2009, 10:05:37 AM A Durban IT company pitted an 11-month-old bird armed with a 4GB memory stick against the ADSL service from the country's biggest web firm, Telkom.
Winston the pigeon took two hours to carry the data 60 miles - in the same time the ADSL had sent 4% of the data ! See:- http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/8248056.stm (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/8248056.stm) Those who like such matters may also like to take a look at http://www.blug.linux.no/rfc1149/ (http://www.blug.linux.no/rfc1149/) |