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DigitalAura
09-10-09, 03:43 PM
The pigeon is the quicker means of sending information in this article! (http://www.businessday.co.za/Articles/Content.aspx?id=81045):)

http://www.businessday.co.za/Articles/Content.aspx?id=81045
CastleBravo
09-10-09, 03:52 PM
That says more about Telkom than it does about ADSL in general. 4GB of data from my ISP, which is ADSL, takes quite a bit less time than 2 hours 6 minutes and 57 seconds.
Rilder
09-10-09, 04:15 PM
My connection can pull about 1GB per day, so yeah my net is slower then a pigeon. :shifty:

Add in unreliability of it and you could probably take a road trip to Neals house from here and back in less time then it'd take to download a 4gb file.
Stealth Hunter
09-10-09, 04:35 PM
It takes me only about an hour now to download a 2GB file.
Shearwater
09-10-09, 04:39 PM
In my home village, we only have DSL with reduced bandwidth but still have to pay the full price :shifty:
Maybe time now to install a pigeon express service for important data delivery :hmmm:
SteamWake
09-10-09, 10:03 PM
In my home village, we only have DSL with reduced bandwidth but still have to pay the full price :shifty:
Maybe time now to install a pigeon express service for important data delivery :hmmm:

:haha: :rock:
Torplexed
09-10-09, 10:37 PM
Another satisfied customer receives his download. Ain't tweeting fun?

http://barfblog.foodsafety.ksu.edu/pigeon.poop.payoff.jpg
Thunder
09-11-09, 08:33 AM
yeah, not only is our internet damn slow, they charge us around $7.80 per gig.:damn::damn::damn:
danlisa
09-11-09, 08:43 AM
I cry Fowl!

Was the Pidgeon carrying 4GB's worth of letters? No I suspect not.
bookworm_020
09-11-09, 11:28 PM
Check that pigeon for steroids!:up:
Arclight
09-12-09, 02:59 AM
My connection is twice as fast as a pidgeon. :smug:

Wait, is that a statement to be proud of? :-?
Aramike
09-12-09, 05:01 AM
The pigeon is the quicker means of sending information in this article! (http://www.businessday.co.za/Articles/Content.aspx?id=81045):)

http://www.businessday.co.za/Articles/Content.aspx?id=81045Funny, but kind of pointless. I could walk a 100 gig harddrive across the street faster that ADSL can transfer it. I could fly from London to New York faster.

Now if the pigeon could transfer the data without physically getting involved, that would be impressive...
Rilder
09-12-09, 12:49 PM
Funny, but kind of pointless. I could walk a 100 gig harddrive across the street faster that ADSL can transfer it. I could fly from London to New York faster.

Now if the pigeon could transfer the data without physically getting involved, that would be impressive...

So we need to rig a pigeon with some sort of magnetic field that holds the flash drive without touching it?
August
09-12-09, 05:58 PM
Not too many 4GB thumb drives in existance during WW1. A fairer comparison would be make a 4GB hard copy print out and see how long it takes the pigeon to move that.
Shearwater
09-12-09, 07:24 PM
Assuming that 1GB of data equals about 200,000 printed pages, 4GB worth of data on standard A4 paper (80g/mē) would have the following dimensions:

Weight: about 4 metric tons / 8818 lbs
Volume: 21cm x 29.7cm x 80m / 8.27"x11.7"x262ft

Also assuming that a trained pigeon can carry up to 75g, it would take a swarm of over 53,000 pigeons to carry 4GB of printed data in one haul.
Not to mention coordination issues.

Sill, I'm somewhat fond of the idea :DL:

http://img10.imageshack.us/img10/6506/mail2vp.jpg

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August
09-12-09, 08:43 PM
I guess ADSL don't sound so bad after all.

53 thousand pigeons huh? Man that's a lot of poop!