WW1 Technology better than ADSL!!

[DigitalAura]

The pigeon is the quicker means of sending information in this article!

http://www.businessday.co.za/Article....aspx?id=81045

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.

My connection can pull about 1GB per day, so yeah my net is slower then a pigeon.

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]

It takes me only about an hour now to download a 2GB file.

[Shearwater]

In my home village, we only have DSL with reduced bandwidth but still have to pay the full price
Maybe time now to install a pigeon express service for important data delivery

[SteamWake]

Originally Posted by Shearwater

In my home village, we only have DSL with reduced bandwidth but still have to pay the full price
Maybe time now to install a pigeon express service for important data delivery

[Torplexed]

Another satisfied customer receives his download. Ain't tweeting fun?

[Aramike]

Originally Posted by DigitalAura

The pigeon is the quicker means of sending information in this article!

http://www.businessday.co.za/Article....aspx?id=81045

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...

Originally Posted by Aramike

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]

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]

Assuming that 1GB of data equals about 200,000 printed pages, 4GB worth of data on standard A4 paper (80g/m²) 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 :



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[August]

I guess ADSL don't sound so bad after all.

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