saved link:

http://dsh.cs.washington.edu:8000/Projects/StudyHall_Discuss/upload/090909-085140.pigeon2/

original link:

http://idle.slashdot.org/story/09/09/08/1414248/SAs-Largest-Telecomms-Provider-vs-a-Pigeon


Quote:

South Africa's largest telecoms provider, Telkom (which has been taking flak for years for its shoddy and overpriced service), is being pitted against a homing pigeon to see which can deliver 4GB of call centre data logs quickest over a distance of around 80km (50 miles). According to the official website, the race is set to take place September 10.

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DSH totally needs to get a fleet of these!  

(Maybe an ad hoc network of cows will have bigger bandwidth but higher latency.  For an office LAN, the mice we have might do well...)


Randy
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