Whats faster a Carrier Pigeon or Broadband

[Simonutd]

well the answer comes for south africa

Aggravated by data transimission delays on the ADSL service from the country’s biggest telecom carrier, an irritated IT staffer decided to pit ADSL speeds against an 11-month-old carrier pigeon named “Winston.

Staffers from Unlimited IT of Durban, South Africa, strapped a 4GB memory stick to Winston’s leg and set him loose as they began a file transfer to the same location with the same data on the stick.

Guess who won?

The phrase “early bird” doesn’t even begin to describe it. Winston flew the data 60 miles to its destination in two hours. By the time Winston got to his destination, Telkom had only sent 4% of the data.

The results of the test showed that Winston completed the transfer in 2hrs 6 minutes and 57 seconds (from uploading data on the card to completion of download from the card) giving a transfer rate of 4.2 Mbps (megabits per second).

It was a clean race, too. Like an elite athlete should expect, Winston obeyed regulations that his “birdseed must not have any performance-enhancing seeds.”

Needless to say, the race ruffled a few feathers at the partially government-owned carrier, which shrugged off any possible blame for the slow broadband services at Unlimited IT.

“Several recommendations have, in the past, been made to the customer but none of these have, to date, been accepted,” Telkom’s Troy Hector told South Africa’s Sapa news agency in an e-mail

[boro_boy]

Read this months ago, must be pretty bad having broadband that slow!!!

[Simonutd]

its not taht bad, most people in the uk have256Kbps or under upload, business get generlly 512kbps or unde,r so to get a pigeon doing what works out at 4.62Mbps,

[boro_boy]

Yeah but can you trust the pigeon to get there?
What if the pigeon gets hit by a lorry?
What if it gets lost?
Its it as secure as transferring over the internet?
What about the costs involved in training this pigeon (you also have to employ someone to look after it, on the minimum wage!!
Pigeons are not the way ahead, Broadband is haha

[Simonutd]

Broadband has monthly fee's,
you have to have a hole team of IT staff to look after it
Internet isnt safe, yoru ip keeps a copy of lots of stuff, just incase,
what if theres a power cut, not internet

[boro_boy]

The broadband is cheaper, the amount of emails businesses send out.
The skies would be full of pigeons.

Your being stupid now!!

[Simonutd]

im not saying for emails, i mean for large files, like dvd size,

[boro_boy]

Well transfer overnight, set any files to be transfered during the businesses "closed" times. usually from 5pm till 9am. Surely 4 gig can be sent in 16 hours

[gornalwolves1]

The broadband is cheaper, the amount of emails businesses send out.
The skies would be full of pigeons.

Your being stupid now!!

There is that, think of us baldies below

[gb]

The mind boggles. Next we’ll see pigeons flying around with letters strapped to their backs and jiffy bags dangling from their feet and everyone will be wearing hats so they don’t get covered in bird ****.