Pigeon Found to be Faster Than Broadband
What's next? BirdTorrent?
Carrier pigeons are an ancient way to transmit information. As we've seen in many movies, one would tie a small scrolled message to the leg of a pigeon before sending it flapping off to warn its recipient of impending danger.
Today we have much more modern and efficient ways to transmit information… or do we? If you're an internet user in South Africa on the Telkom ISP, you might have better results with the old ways.
A worker at a Durban IT company was very unhappy with the performance of Telkom's ADSL speed. As a result, he decided to pit a carrier pigeon armed with a 4 GB USB stick against a plain file transfer.
Winston the pigeon won.
By the time Winston reached his destination, only 4 percent of the file had transferred. The BBC report does not specify the full size of the file, but did say that Winston completed his journey in 1 hour and 8 minutes, while the internet transfer required an additional hour to complete.
ISP Telom said that it couldn't be held responsible for the slow transfer speeds to the IT company, as it has helped to advise the company in possible improvements, but thus far none have been accepted.

Wait, what? So the file was uploaded by only 4% in One hour 8 minutes, and the remaining 96% of the file needed only one hour to complete? That's some weird reliability.
Alright, I'll start seeding the latest Ubuntu build.
Wait, what? So the file was uploaded by only 4% in One hour 8 minutes, and the remaining 96% of the file needed only one hour to complete? That's some weird reliability.
If I was the boss of that ISP I would walk around with a paper bag over my head, I doubt I could live with the shame of losing to centuries old technology.
http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2009/09/in-africa-a-pigeon-transfers-data-faster-than-the-internet/
They say in the Wired bit that (including xfer of file to usb stick etc) that it took a total of 2 hours 6 minutes and 57 seconds and that by that time only 4% had been transferred. There had been no comment from Telkom at that time and they also do not indicate where the destination office is located. I would bet though that the 'improvement options' offered by Telkom would not help an infrastructure problem taht it is likely to be.
Let the DDos begin [l](to the tune of Plop, plop, fiz, fiz, oh what a relief it is)[/l]
Break out the Umbrellas!
http://pigeonrace2009.co.za/
also has map route and much more information regarding the "race"...
Basic math please? 1 hour and 8 minutes to complete 4% but required an additional hour to complete. More like it requires 20 more hours!
so im guessing the other hour was for upload and download of the file from the memory stick.
goto the website above and click on "pigeon race 2009"
1 question can a pigeon run crysis online LAWL