ADSL Outpaced by a Pigeon

September 9, 2009

in AOB,The Blog

pigeon 300x255 ADSL Outpaced by a PigeonHoming pigeon Winston has made history by beating a Telkom ADSL line in delivering 4GB of data from Howick to Hillcrest, outside Durban in far less time than it takes to download the data using the state-run Telkom’s data network.

It took Winston 2 hours 6 minutes and 57 seconds, whereas the ADSL download was still under 5 % downloaded by the time the bird landed.

Winston took off from Howick after 10:00 this morning and travelled 80 kilometers, or 70 as the bird flies, to ensure the data arrived at it’s destination quickly.

Financial services company The Unlimited decided to test Telkom’s ADSL speed against World War I technology – the ancient technology won.

Found in Business Day.

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  • http://www.fttxtra.com John Bartell

    And imagine the bandwidth of an SUV loaded with hard drives…that is the modern version of think of the bandwidth of a station wagon loaded with mag tapes I heard 25 years ago or so.

  • yuwen

    What an interesting test! I shal never imagine that in such a “digital era” of 21 centery, the World War I technology should win! it only tell us that “do not count too much on hi-tech product”. and remember this , “do not be too smart by half”.

    thansk for theinitiatives and report, though we all know what it might imply.

  • http://viettelonline.com ADSL Viettel

    It's hard to find quality information like this, I'm glad i found this, thanks for the valuable information.

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    Homing pigeon Winston did great :)

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