FACT: Pigeons are faster than Broadband

[PeteB]

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.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8248056.stm?ls

 

[arkitect]

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[PeteB]

Dang...

At least I have a photo of the bird..