Pigeon Data Transfer Rates Faster Than DSL

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Pigeon Data Transfer Rates Faster Than DSL

So remember a few weeks back when I gave Bill Baxter a hard time about his glacially slow home page, and joked that I could get better throughput using pigeons?

Well, umm, turns out pigeon data rates are pretty dang impressive, and in some cases will outperform traditional ADSL service. Am I allowed a little salt or maybe some tabasco on my crow?

I humbly extend my sincere apologies to any pigeon-kind I may have offended with my previous unprovoked and wholly ignorant attack on their capabilities as a data transport infrastructure.

But Bill's web site is still slower than molasses in November. Sorry Bill. Have you tried pigeons?

Print | posted @ Wednesday, March 31, 2004 6:02 PM

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# re: Pigeon Data Transfer Rates Faster Than DSL

by phsiii at 5/7/2004 5:57 AM

A customer was considering moving a 100TB disk array from Japan to the US. We figured if it took about 30 hours to power it down, box it, fly it over, and reconnect it, the throughput was about 1Gb/s. Latency would look pretty bad, though...