http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/10/south-african-pigeon-transmits-data-faster-than-local-dsl/ Engadget Comments for http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/10/south-african-pigeon-transmits-data-faster-than-local-dsl/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/10/south-african-pigeon-transmits-data-faster-than-local-dsl/Sep 10th 2009 7:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/10/south-african-pigeon-transmits-data-faster-than-local-dsl/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/10/south-african-pigeon-transmits-data-faster-than-local-dsl/Sep 10th 2009 8:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/10/south-african-pigeon-transmits-data-faster-than-local-dsl/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/10/south-african-pigeon-transmits-data-faster-than-local-dsl/Assuming an 16GB MicroSD card weighs about 1 gram, the pigeon can carry a maximum of 800GB of data.
Assuming a 20MB/s transfer rate for the SD card, it will take about 11hours to 'fill up' the pigeon, and another 11 to 'empty' it.
Therefore, in one day, a pigeon can transport 800GB about 100 miles.
Therefore, the montly bandwidth cap of a pigeon is about 24TB for people living within 100miles of the nearest hub.

Pretty awesome, though i think latency might be an issue.]]>Sep 10th 2009 8:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/10/south-african-pigeon-transmits-data-faster-than-local-dsl/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/10/south-african-pigeon-transmits-data-faster-than-local-dsl/Sep 10th 2009 8:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/10/south-african-pigeon-transmits-data-faster-than-local-dsl/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/10/south-african-pigeon-transmits-data-faster-than-local-dsl/Sep 10th 2009 9:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/10/south-african-pigeon-transmits-data-faster-than-local-dsl/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/10/south-african-pigeon-transmits-data-faster-than-local-dsl/Sep 10th 2009 9:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/10/south-african-pigeon-transmits-data-faster-than-local-dsl/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/10/south-african-pigeon-transmits-data-faster-than-local-dsl/Sep 10th 2009 10:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/10/south-african-pigeon-transmits-data-faster-than-local-dsl/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/10/south-african-pigeon-transmits-data-faster-than-local-dsl/Sep 10th 2009 11:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/10/south-african-pigeon-transmits-data-faster-than-local-dsl/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/10/south-african-pigeon-transmits-data-faster-than-local-dsl/Sep 10th 2009 11:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/10/south-african-pigeon-transmits-data-faster-than-local-dsl/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/10/south-african-pigeon-transmits-data-faster-than-local-dsl/Assume a month with 30 days, that are 720 hours in a month.
100miles(about 1270194km) flying takes 24hours and copying the data with a ransfer rate of 20MB/s would take 22hrs. => 46Hr (without changing the cards and catching the pigeons)
=> 800Gb/46Hr => 12,5TB/month => 417,4Gb/day => 40525,5kb/s!!!

But! => 0.00483102GB/s, hmm.. still not that awesome as the 24 samsung SSD drives :(

Maybe we canlet 2 pigeons do the work? Because 1+1=3, that means that 2 pigeons toghether can do more than 2 pigeons on their own. hmm.. :)
Forget Glass Fiber, use pigeons :D


(thanks to convertbot from the appstore :p)]]>Sep 10th 2009 12:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/10/south-african-pigeon-transmits-data-faster-than-local-dsl/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/10/south-african-pigeon-transmits-data-faster-than-local-dsl/Sep 10th 2009 12:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/10/south-african-pigeon-transmits-data-faster-than-local-dsl/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/10/south-african-pigeon-transmits-data-faster-than-local-dsl/Sep 10th 2009 2:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/10/south-african-pigeon-transmits-data-faster-than-local-dsl/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/10/south-african-pigeon-transmits-data-faster-than-local-dsl/
It is estimated that 500,000 rapes are committed annually in South Africa, and that for every 25 men accused of rape, only one is convicted of the crime. South Africa also has the world highest number of people living with HIV/AIDS: 5.5 million in a population of about 48 million.

So i wouldn't call it civilized probably one of the worst country's in Africa unless you want to live in the rape capital of the world. Theres also so many racial crimes going on their it's pretty horrible maybe watch the news or read a paper some time.]]>Sep 10th 2009 11:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/10/south-african-pigeon-transmits-data-faster-than-local-dsl/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/10/south-african-pigeon-transmits-data-faster-than-local-dsl/Sep 10th 2009 11:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/10/south-african-pigeon-transmits-data-faster-than-local-dsl/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/10/south-african-pigeon-transmits-data-faster-than-local-dsl/
That sucks for you , dear South African Engadget reader. Then again, internet bandwidth is probably not the biggest issue to solve in South Africa.]]>Sep 10th 2009 7:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/10/south-african-pigeon-transmits-data-faster-than-local-dsl/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/10/south-african-pigeon-transmits-data-faster-than-local-dsl/Sep 10th 2009 8:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/10/south-african-pigeon-transmits-data-faster-than-local-dsl/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/10/south-african-pigeon-transmits-data-faster-than-local-dsl/Sep 10th 2009 8:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/10/south-african-pigeon-transmits-data-faster-than-local-dsl/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/10/south-african-pigeon-transmits-data-faster-than-local-dsl/
Or is that the child prostitutes?]]>Sep 10th 2009 8:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/10/south-african-pigeon-transmits-data-faster-than-local-dsl/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/10/south-african-pigeon-transmits-data-faster-than-local-dsl/Sep 10th 2009 8:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/10/south-african-pigeon-transmits-data-faster-than-local-dsl/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/10/south-african-pigeon-transmits-data-faster-than-local-dsl/Sep 10th 2009 8:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/10/south-african-pigeon-transmits-data-faster-than-local-dsl/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/10/south-african-pigeon-transmits-data-faster-than-local-dsl/Sep 10th 2009 10:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/10/south-african-pigeon-transmits-data-faster-than-local-dsl/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/10/south-african-pigeon-transmits-data-faster-than-local-dsl/But yeah I'd not call it a "modern" country either really, although when you think about it so many would fail my classification, if not all.


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Really what they should've done is loaded something like a 720p trailer onto one, and tested that. Streaming over the DSL vs the pigeon.]]>Sep 10th 2009 8:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/10/south-african-pigeon-transmits-data-faster-than-local-dsl/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/10/south-african-pigeon-transmits-data-faster-than-local-dsl/Sep 10th 2009 8:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/10/south-african-pigeon-transmits-data-faster-than-local-dsl/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/10/south-african-pigeon-transmits-data-faster-than-local-dsl/Sep 10th 2009 8:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/10/south-african-pigeon-transmits-data-faster-than-local-dsl/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/10/south-african-pigeon-transmits-data-faster-than-local-dsl/Sep 10th 2009 8:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/10/south-african-pigeon-transmits-data-faster-than-local-dsl/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/10/south-african-pigeon-transmits-data-faster-than-local-dsl/
Not a European pigeon, that's your point, I presume.]]>Sep 10th 2009 9:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/10/south-african-pigeon-transmits-data-faster-than-local-dsl/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/10/south-african-pigeon-transmits-data-faster-than-local-dsl/Sep 10th 2009 10:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/10/south-african-pigeon-transmits-data-faster-than-local-dsl/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/10/south-african-pigeon-transmits-data-faster-than-local-dsl/Sep 10th 2009 10:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/10/south-african-pigeon-transmits-data-faster-than-local-dsl/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/10/south-african-pigeon-transmits-data-faster-than-local-dsl/Sep 10th 2009 1:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/10/south-african-pigeon-transmits-data-faster-than-local-dsl/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/10/south-african-pigeon-transmits-data-faster-than-local-dsl/African pigeons must have Jumbo Frames support.]]>Sep 10th 2009 2:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/10/south-african-pigeon-transmits-data-faster-than-local-dsl/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/10/south-african-pigeon-transmits-data-faster-than-local-dsl/Like this? http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1149.html]]>Sep 11th 2009 12:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/10/south-african-pigeon-transmits-data-faster-than-local-dsl/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/10/south-african-pigeon-transmits-data-faster-than-local-dsl/]]>Sep 10th 2009 7:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/10/south-african-pigeon-transmits-data-faster-than-local-dsl/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/10/south-african-pigeon-transmits-data-faster-than-local-dsl/
But yeah UK internet (ADSL mainly) sucks, but I don't think as bad as above (80MB in over 2 hours!) for the vast majority.]]>Sep 10th 2009 8:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/10/south-african-pigeon-transmits-data-faster-than-local-dsl/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/10/south-african-pigeon-transmits-data-faster-than-local-dsl/
You can for instance, pack an entire helicopter with data (while wearing sneakers) and ship it, then plug it in (still wearing the sneakers), long before any cable is going to do it. If you are talking fast cable, then the data volume being tested would be increased proportionally. The helicopter is for dramatic effect

As for the previous call for "fair testing" based on packets, well, perhaps it is a 4gig packet

In the example of 2gig in 10 min, well sure, so that's quicker than going to the video store (depending on distance and if you know what video you want) but at the video store you could pick up 10 DVD's for the week in the same time, where the cable is just going to take 10 times longer. Movie files are not so good as an example since there is no "load time" when you have finished transferring the data from one location to the other.]]>Sep 10th 2009 8:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/10/south-african-pigeon-transmits-data-faster-than-local-dsl/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/10/south-african-pigeon-transmits-data-faster-than-local-dsl/Sep 10th 2009 9:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/10/south-african-pigeon-transmits-data-faster-than-local-dsl/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/10/south-african-pigeon-transmits-data-faster-than-local-dsl/
Does that make a traffic jam full of station wagons a DDoS attack?]]>Sep 10th 2009 10:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/10/south-african-pigeon-transmits-data-faster-than-local-dsl/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/10/south-african-pigeon-transmits-data-faster-than-local-dsl/Sep 10th 2009 7:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/10/south-african-pigeon-transmits-data-faster-than-local-dsl/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/10/south-african-pigeon-transmits-data-faster-than-local-dsl/Sep 10th 2009 6:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/10/south-african-pigeon-transmits-data-faster-than-local-dsl/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/10/south-african-pigeon-transmits-data-faster-than-local-dsl/
THE SKIES THICK WITH PIGEONS!

And maybe each pigeon could drop a feather at each home, to test bittorrent, until South Africa is smeared with the blood and bones of 10 million pigeons.]]>Sep 10th 2009 8:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/10/south-african-pigeon-transmits-data-faster-than-local-dsl/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/10/south-african-pigeon-transmits-data-faster-than-local-dsl/Sep 10th 2009 8:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/10/south-african-pigeon-transmits-data-faster-than-local-dsl/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/10/south-african-pigeon-transmits-data-faster-than-local-dsl/Sep 10th 2009 9:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/10/south-african-pigeon-transmits-data-faster-than-local-dsl/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/10/south-african-pigeon-transmits-data-faster-than-local-dsl/Sep 10th 2009 8:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/10/south-african-pigeon-transmits-data-faster-than-local-dsl/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/10/south-african-pigeon-transmits-data-faster-than-local-dsl/Sep 10th 2009 8:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/10/south-african-pigeon-transmits-data-faster-than-local-dsl/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/10/south-african-pigeon-transmits-data-faster-than-local-dsl/Sep 10th 2009 10:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/10/south-african-pigeon-transmits-data-faster-than-local-dsl/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/10/south-african-pigeon-transmits-data-faster-than-local-dsl/Sep 10th 2009 8:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/10/south-african-pigeon-transmits-data-faster-than-local-dsl/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/10/south-african-pigeon-transmits-data-faster-than-local-dsl/Sep 10th 2009 8:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/10/south-african-pigeon-transmits-data-faster-than-local-dsl/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/10/south-african-pigeon-transmits-data-faster-than-local-dsl/Sep 10th 2009 9:13AM