Carrier pigeon is faster than ADSL these days.
10-09-2009, 04:09
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Carrier pigeon is faster than ADSL these days.
http://www.businessday.co.za/Article....aspx?id=81045
I saw this story, and it made me laugh. Especially since I remember reading an RFC about IP over Carrier Pigeon a while ago. Perhaps we should give it some thought? 
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10-09-2009, 08:49
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Re: Carrier pigeon is faster than ADSL these days.
There are some obvious drawbacks with carrier pigeons not least of all is you have to
*House them.
*Feed them.
*Clean up after them.
*They are damned noisy.
To be honest 5 hours over ASDL is still quicker than the Post.
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10-09-2009, 12:09
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Re: Carrier pigeon is faster than ADSL these days.
I can see where this is coming from really as the upload speeds are just terrible.
but as Maggy has said this is still faster then Royal Mail..
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10-09-2009, 13:33
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Re: Carrier pigeon is faster than ADSL these days.
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11-09-2009, 11:42
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Re: Carrier pigeon is faster than ADSL these days.
I guess they use the IP/TCP stack ?
That would be the Internest Protocol / Trained Carrier Pigeon stack...
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11-09-2009, 12:04
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Re: Carrier pigeon is faster than ADSL these days.
Mmmm, this was in South African and the companies computer can't have been up to much either, it took an hour for the pigeon and another hour to upload the 4 gig from the usb pen, an hour ??????
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11-09-2009, 14:26
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Re: Carrier pigeon is faster than ADSL these days.
New wave of 411 scams coming by carrier pigeon lol
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11-09-2009, 14:28
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Re: Carrier pigeon is faster than ADSL these days.
Anti virus could be a lot easier - just close the window 
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11-09-2009, 18:00
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Re: Carrier pigeon is faster than ADSL these days.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Tony.
Anti virus could be a lot easier - just close the window |
shooting down spam would be fun to
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