Pigeon post beats South African broadband Internet

Posted on Friday, September 11 2009 @ 16:19 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck

BBC News reports a Durban IT company pitted an 11-month-old pigeon with a 4GB memory stick against the ADSL service from South Africa's biggest Internet firm, Telkom. The results are astounding, Winston (the pigeon) took just over two hours to carry the data 60 miles, while the ADSL connection had sent just 4 percent of the data, which equates to roughly 23KB/s.

The firm said Winston took one hour and eight minutes to fly between the offices, and the data took another hour to upload on to their system.

Mr Rolfe said the ADSL transmission of the same data size was about 4% complete in the same time.

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Thomas De Maesschalck

Thomas has been messing with computer since early childhood and firmly believes the Internet is the best thing since sliced bread. Enjoys playing with new tech, is fascinated by science, and passionate about financial markets. When not behind a computer, he can be found with running shoes on or lifting heavy weights in the weight room.

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