pigeon outpaces broadband

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A South African IT outfit has shamed telecoms operator Telkom by sending 4GB of data 60 miles by pigeon in two hours - faster than it arrived by the ISP's broadband service.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/09/10/pigeon_v_broadband/

 

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I saw results of tests of massive data transfers in Europe once, it was faster to write it to discs and load them into a truck and drive them a hundred miles...