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It's all that prawn technology. It really messes up their broadband connection.
that's pretty freaking hilarious!
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1149.txt
Would've been funnier if they used Carrier Pigeon Internet Protocol
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1149.txt
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Chibibar
wow... 4GB to upload???
What are they running?
What are they running?
Hell, a series of tubes is faster. New York used to have a bunch of those pneumatic tubes.
It's a silly and useless test, though. I mean, it's cool for comparison purposes and as a way of saying they're slow,but it doesn't say anything.
Who determined it was 60 miles? Why 4 GB?
Decide with a 1GB file, and transfer them from one side of SA to the other (1100 miles) and we'll see who wins. *shrug* The internet wasn't invented to connect a city with the next; but to connect a city to the world.
Who determined it was 60 miles? Why 4 GB?
Decide with a 1GB file, and transfer them from one side of SA to the other (1100 miles) and we'll see who wins. *shrug* The internet wasn't invented to connect a city with the next; but to connect a city to the world.
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Rubicon
not to mention it was upload speed
Depending upon provider and package, even on broadband that varies.
I've got cable with Time Warner..
Great download speeds, shit upload.
Varies per provider. I didnt read the article but Im guessing their ADSL line gets decent download
Depending upon provider and package, even on broadband that varies.
I've got cable with Time Warner..
Great download speeds, shit upload.
Varies per provider. I didnt read the article but Im guessing their ADSL line gets decent download
Pshaw. You just have an inferiority complex. You wish you owls could be as cool as pigeons.
Pshaw. You just have an inferiority complex. You wish you owls could be as cool as pigeons.[/QUOTE]
Dude, we have a frickin' MEMORIAL STATUE for the carrier pigeon in the World War here in Brussels. There's just no love for us owls anywhere :waah:
I was reading about this shit the other day. Animals in warfare, and particularly those that received Honors.
This guy made me really happy. Gander, the Newfoundland Dog with the Royal Rifles (a Canadian regiment), who on three occasions fought the Japanese in Hong Kong. On two occasions, he went ballistic on Japanese forces closing in on wounded Canadian soldiers, and on the third, he picked up an unexploded grenade from a dugout and jumped with it out of harms way, dieing in the process.
I remember reading somewhere that Canadians who were captured by the Japanese in Hong Kong were rigorously interrogated about the "black devils" that they had tamed for war.
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GeneralOrder24
The whole article IS crap, because by those standards, I can put a 4gb thumb drive on a three wheeled roller skate and roll it over to another PC in the room in less time than it takes to transfer over a network, thusly claiming that a three wheeled roller skate is faster than my LAN.
Or even better, drop the thumb drive down the stairs, and claim gravity faster.
Or even better, drop the thumb drive down the stairs, and claim gravity faster.
nah, the article's not crap. We can extrapolate a fair amount of data from it.
According to speedtest.net, I can get 150megs per minute. That's 26-27 minutes for 4 gigs. But I have a fiber optic connection.
The pigeon route took 2 hours. That's about 33 megs per minute. That's actually a pretty good clip, and would beat even a decent. ADSL connection. It's a publicity stunt, really. Because they could have strapped a 16 gb chip, or any size chip on it to ensure the pigeon won. A closer real-world test would've been to use a 1 gig chip, which gives close to what it would take to download the same amount of data in the same amount of time.
But regardless of the pigeon (which, as I say, was only a publicity stunt) they did say the network route got only about 160 megs in 2 hours (4% of 4 gigs) That's 1.3 megs a minute, which is about half what ADSL should be on upload, and 6 times or so slower than it shoudl be if they were downloading. The article doesn't make it clear how the data was actually transferred, but either way, it's a lot less than should be expected.
According to speedtest.net, I can get 150megs per minute. That's 26-27 minutes for 4 gigs. But I have a fiber optic connection.
The pigeon route took 2 hours. That's about 33 megs per minute. That's actually a pretty good clip, and would beat even a decent. ADSL connection. It's a publicity stunt, really. Because they could have strapped a 16 gb chip, or any size chip on it to ensure the pigeon won. A closer real-world test would've been to use a 1 gig chip, which gives close to what it would take to download the same amount of data in the same amount of time.
But regardless of the pigeon (which, as I say, was only a publicity stunt) they did say the network route got only about 160 megs in 2 hours (4% of 4 gigs) That's 1.3 megs a minute, which is about half what ADSL should be on upload, and 6 times or so slower than it shoudl be if they were downloading. The article doesn't make it clear how the data was actually transferred, but either way, it's a lot less than should be expected.
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