Luke122
09-10-2009, 11:54 AM
Yes, you read that right..
Originally posted on Engadget.com:
"Here's a sure-fire way to get noticed: take an overly trite expression and apply it literally to your complaint. Case in point: Unlimited IT, so exasperated by South Africa's leading supplier of slow internet connectivity that it pitted a Telkom ADSL line against a real-live homing pigeon in a 60-mile data transmission race. The pigeon arrived with the 4GB memory stick in just over an hour with another hour required to load the data onto the computer. As for Telkom? Well, after 2 hours it had barely reached 4%. Point made. "
http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/10/south-african-pigeon-transmits-data-faster-than-local-dsl/
The best thing about this article, is the comment section. Here's the best:
"A homing pigeon can carry, on average, between 30 and 50 grams.
Assuming an 16GB MicroSD card weighs about 1 gram, the pigeon can carry a maximum of 800GB of data.
Assuming a 20MB/s transfer rate for the SD card, it will take about 11hours to 'fill up' the pigeon, and another 11 to 'empty' it.
Therefore, in one day, a pigeon can transport 800GB about 100 miles.
Therefore, the montly bandwidth cap of a pigeon is about 24TB for people living within 100miles of the nearest hub.
Pretty awesome, though i think latency might be an issue."
Originally posted on Engadget.com:
"Here's a sure-fire way to get noticed: take an overly trite expression and apply it literally to your complaint. Case in point: Unlimited IT, so exasperated by South Africa's leading supplier of slow internet connectivity that it pitted a Telkom ADSL line against a real-live homing pigeon in a 60-mile data transmission race. The pigeon arrived with the 4GB memory stick in just over an hour with another hour required to load the data onto the computer. As for Telkom? Well, after 2 hours it had barely reached 4%. Point made. "
http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/10/south-african-pigeon-transmits-data-faster-than-local-dsl/
The best thing about this article, is the comment section. Here's the best:
"A homing pigeon can carry, on average, between 30 and 50 grams.
Assuming an 16GB MicroSD card weighs about 1 gram, the pigeon can carry a maximum of 800GB of data.
Assuming a 20MB/s transfer rate for the SD card, it will take about 11hours to 'fill up' the pigeon, and another 11 to 'empty' it.
Therefore, in one day, a pigeon can transport 800GB about 100 miles.
Therefore, the montly bandwidth cap of a pigeon is about 24TB for people living within 100miles of the nearest hub.
Pretty awesome, though i think latency might be an issue."