[p2p-research] BBC NEWS | Africa | SA pigeon 'faster than broadband'

[Paul D. Fernhout]

Here is some advanced new technology for improving peer-to-peer high-speed 
access: :-)
   http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8248056.stm
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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. Telkom said it was not responsible 
for the firm's slow internet speeds. The idea for the race came when a 
member of staff at Unlimited IT complained about the speed of data 
transmission on ADSL. He said it would be faster by carrier pigeon.  "We 
renown ourselves on being innovative, so we decided to test that statement," 
Unlimited's Kevin Rolfe told the Beeld newspaper.
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Or:
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sneakernet
"Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling 
down the highway. —Tanenbaum, Andrew S. (1996). Computer Networks."

--Paul Fernhout
http://www.pdfernhout.net/