It appears that UK broadband users should be
thankful what they get, even though it's a long way short of the
advertised headline speeds.
A South Africa financial services company pitted its local broadband service against a pigeon to send a four gigabyte file 80 km. The pigeon, Winston, arrived with his encrypted USB stick in 2:06:57 hours, by which time 4% of the file had arrived over the wires.
His owner reckons that with training Winston could cut his time to 45 minutes.
That's what Downtime would call superfast broadband.
A South Africa financial services company pitted its local broadband service against a pigeon to send a four gigabyte file 80 km. The pigeon, Winston, arrived with his encrypted USB stick in 2:06:57 hours, by which time 4% of the file had arrived over the wires.
His owner reckons that with training Winston could cut his time to 45 minutes.
That's what Downtime would call superfast broadband.
Comments (2)
Thats excellent, I wonder if I can borrow him for some of my wedding data? Broadband in the UK is sometimes so slow...
Posted by wedding photographer essex | September 16, 2009 8:56 AM
Posted on September 16, 2009 08:56
"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. "
Posted by Anonymous | September 16, 2009 3:37 PM
Posted on September 16, 2009 15:37