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Rob Beard wrote:
Hi folks, This made me chuckle... http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/09/10/pigeon_v_broadband/It seems an ISP in South Africa sent 4GB of data to a remote site 60 miles away via carrier pigeon and also over their broadband connection and the pigeon beat the ISP.Okay, disregarding that on an ADSL connection it probably would take a good many hours to send 4GB (assuming upload speeds of between 256KBit/sec and 512KBit/sec) which made it a bit pointless, it was still a pretty funny way of transferring data.I see actually there is a standard for this and it has been done back in April 2001...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_over_Avian_Carriers Rob
And for those of us old enough to forget: 'Never underestimate the bandwidth of a truck full of tapes' Tom te tom te tom -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html