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Next time you rage at your internet... 14 years, 10 months ago #6790

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Just remember this...

"The results are in: it's faster to send your data via an airborne carrier than it is through the pipes. As discussed Tuesday, a company in South Africa called Unlimited IT, frustrated by terribly slow Internet speeds, decided to prove their point by sending an actual homing pigeon with a "data card" strapped to its leg from one of their offices to another while at the same time uploading the same amount of data to the same destination via their ISPs data lines. The media outlet reporting this triumph said that it took the pigeon just over 1 hour to make the 80km/50mile flight, whereas it took over 2 hours to transfer just 4% of that data."

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Re: Next time you rage at your internet... 14 years, 10 months ago #6793

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ARGH

Question is, how much data did the data card had?!?


4G data card, 4% in 2 hours, would take 50hour to dump the data over the wire, that would give around 22KBs... yes, its slow...


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Re: Next time you rage at your internet... 14 years, 10 months ago #6794

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Forgot to mention, using my values, that would go around a regular 256kbit upload rate adsl.


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Re: Next time you rage at your internet... 14 years, 10 months ago #6796

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now imagine using a boeing filled with crates of 1TB HDD's
^ thats some upload speed right there.
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Re: Next time you rage at your internet... 14 years, 10 months ago #6799

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LOL, wonder if they can change the naming convention, instead of MBPS to PPH (Pidgeons Per Hour)..
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VoGon wrote:
LOL, wonder if they can change the naming convention, instead of MBPS to PPH (Pidgeons Per Hour)..


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Re: Next time you rage at your internet... 14 years, 10 months ago #6806

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it was idd 4GB
A Durban [South Africa] 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.
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