Wednesday, March 31, 2004

Carrier pigeon being released from a seaplanePigeons' Bandwidth Advantage Quantified: A well documented test took place in the north of Israel, in the presence of several dozen Internet geeks and experts. 3 homing pigeons carried 4 GB for 100 km distance, achieving what looks to be the pigeon world record for data transfer. Bandwidth achieved by the pigeons was 2.27 Mbps... Transferring a similar volume of information through a common uplink of ADSL line would have taken no less than 96 hours...  [Slashdot 3/31/2004]
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