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Yes, a Pigeon is Faster for Data Transfer than Gigabit Fiber Internet (www.tomshardware.com)
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Yes, a Pigeon is Faster for Data Transfer than Gigabit Fiber Internet::A decade ago, a pigeon with a 4 GB memory stick outran an ISP’s ADSL service. A 2023 rematch features a bird with 3 TB of flash drives vs gigabit internet.

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[-] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 223 points 2 years ago

Yeah, but having that ping time of 36,000,000ms really kind of sucks.

[-] Tar_alcaran@lemmy.world 153 points 2 years ago

Error-correction for dropped packets is also pretty shit.

[-] Rocketpoweredgorilla@lemmy.ca 79 points 2 years ago

oh, that's what's on my car.

[-] hansl@lemmy.ml 26 points 2 years ago

Also having to manually bring the pigeon back to the launching site, because pigeons only work one way.

[-] Tranus@programming.dev 27 points 2 years ago

What if you attached two one-way pigeons together to make a two-way pidgeon? It would probably take a piece of string, and a coconut...

[-] SloppyPuppy@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Its UDP man

[-] sepen77@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

What if you make it carry N+M separate flash drives configured in a Raid Z(M) format.. allowing for up to M-1 dropped packets.

[-] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

That help ensure data integrity provided the pigeon gets there, but would not help the pigeon get there any faster.

[-] sepen77@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Oops I think I replied to the wrong comment lol

Someone commented about error coreection

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