Posted on 09/09/2009 2:03:21 PM PDT by JoeProBono
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - A South African information technology company on Wednesday proved it was faster for them to transmit data with a carrier pigeon than to send it using Telkom , the country's leading internet service provider. Internet speed and connectivity in Africa's largest economy are poor because of a bandwidth shortage. It is also expensive.
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Pidgeons smarter than SA telephone company workers and many American CWA union members. CWA = Communications Workers of America.
Remember when South Africa was a modern city, before it was turned over to people who have never been able to run anything well?
This depends a lot on what the pigeon carried. As the saying goes: never underestimate the bandwidth of a stationwagon loaded with tapes hurtling down the highway.
Networking 101: Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes.
But the latency is a killer.
Damn, you beat me.
Technical Note: Please remove all references of BAUD RATE and replace with the term BIRD RATE.
We always referred to that (in disaster recovery circles) as CTAM ... Chevy Truck Access Method.
Creepy. Here I am talking stupid people and I spell Pigeon with a D in it. I thought there was a d in pigeon.
Is there two ways to spell it or was I thinking of Walter Pidgeon the actor?
Signed:
Birdbrain
I’m waiting......
Still waiting......
*sigh* Still waiting......
Packet loss. Somebody shot one of his IP pigeons.
“Technical Note: Please remove all references of BAUD RATE and replace with the term BIRD RATE.”
LOL.
This thread could become the source of really cheep cheep jokes with people pecking away at what would have been a good story that JoeProBono was trying to put to seed out here for discussion and instead we have to resort to baud puns.
Packet loss my butt.
Peck-it loss, you mean.
Moral: The early bird gets the worm.
Lesson: Be a late worm.
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