Pigeon transfers data faster than South Africa's Telkom
 

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/reuters/0...safrica_pigeon

"JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - A South African information technology company on Wednesday proved it was faster for them to transmit data with a carrier pigeon than to send it using Telkom , the country's leading internet service provider.

ADVERTISEMENT

Internet speed and connectivity in Africa's largest economy are poor because of a bandwidth shortage. It is also expensive.


Local news agency SAPA reported the 11-month-old pigeon, Winston, took one hour and eight minutes to fly the 80 km (50 miles) from Unlimited IT's offices near Pietermaritzburg to the coastal city of Durban with a data card was strapped to his leg.


Including downloading, the transfer took two hours, six minutes and 57 seconds -- the time it took for only four percent of the data to be transferred using a Telkom line.


SAPA said Unlimited IT performed the stunt after becoming frustrated with slow internet transmission times.


The company has 11 call-centers around the country and regularly sends data to its other branches.


Telkom could not immediately be reached for comment.


Internet speed is expected to improve once a new 17,000 km underwater fiber optic cable linking southern and East Africa to other networks becomes operational before South Africa hosts the soccer World Cup next year.


Local service providers are currently negotiating deals for more bandwidth."

How big was the file because they make 64 gig usb drives. I bet the same could be done here.

so the pigeon can send me porn faster than the internet provider?

how did thay get the pigeon to fly there?

:facepalm:

:haha::haha::haha:

...are you serious?

lol that made me laugh out loud. thanks

LOL we provide workforce mobile solutions to Telkom SA. :haha::haha:

they can deep fry that pigeon faster then they can upload

:lol thanks, that was my best laugh of the day.

^lol you assholes. i think he meant how they got the pigeon to go where thye wanted it to go...

duh.. put the pigeon on a plane.

^ bahahhahahah

You get double facepalm

:facepalm: :facepalm:

I don't think it really warrants a facepalm... it's not really something everyone should be expected to know.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homing_pigeon

^ That's like saying that we shouldn't judge people who don't know 2 + 2, or the name of the province they live in.

Some people need to read more books or watch more Discovery Channel. But hey, at least now you know. :)

I'm pretty sure everyone who isn't an idiot knows what homing pigeons are.

ooh ouch.. =(

PIDGEOTTO! GUST OF WIND!

Not only that but carrier pigeons is one of the most oldest forms of communication; but this is RS and sometimes things need to be spelled out to the letter.

I always knew.

But what I'm saying is I don't believe that homing pigeons or carrier pigeons is something obvious like 2 + 2 or what province we live in.

Sure, many people might know about them, but that does not necessarily mean everyone should.

In the same way, almost everyone I know learned about dinosaurs at some point in elementary school... but for whatever reason, I never did... so there might be something trivial about dinosaurs that most people know that I don't, but that should hardly warrant me getting a facepalm because of it.

nice

maybe it's time to revert back to old technology

That really made me LOL. Thanks :D