Pigeon Wireless Internet actually faster than ADSL

And you thought your internet connection was slow. A group of internet users in Israel and abroad got together to test out the speed of their Wi-Fly network (that would be pigeon-empowered wireless internet to those of you non-cutting edge types) vis-a-vis the ADSL infrastructure. Participants gave three homing pigeons a pack of memory cards summing to 1.3GB per pigeon, or 4GB in total, and had them fly 100 km. This marked an improvement over the old Wi-Fly methodology, in which the birds carried paper transmissions. The switch from analog to digital did the trick, enabling the pigeons to beat out an ADSL connection for raw data transfer over the same distance, and achieved a record for pigeon data transfer in the process. Here at Engadget right now we're doing speed trials to see if the New York breed of pigeons can take on EV-DO. We'll let you know how it goes.