SA pigeon 'faster than broadband'

[formercia]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8248056.stm



Winston the pigeon was allowed no "performance-enhancing seeds"

Broadband promised to unite the world with super-fast data delivery - but in South Africa it seems the web is still no faster than a humble pigeon.

A Durban IT company pitted an 11-month-old bird armed with a 4GB memory stick against the ADSL service from the country's biggest web firm, Telkom.

Winston the pigeon took two hours to carry the data 60 miles - in the same time the ADSL had sent 4% of the data.

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[Tesha]

1. A long-standing joke in the computer business goes...

Q: What's the fastest known form of data networking?

A: An eighteen-wheeler full of magtapes.

Today, substitute MicroSD cards for magtapes, but the gist of the
joke is just as true as it ever was.

Tesha