South Africa: Pidgeon faster than broadband

RickJ · Fri 11/09/2009 12:34:47

Yet another BBC news story ...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/africa/8248056.stm

A funny story about a disgruntled broadband customer having a whack at the phone company for providing poor service. Thought I'd share.

Phemar · Fri 11/09/2009 13:56:50

They exaggerate the slowness of internet in South Africa a bit. I, and most of my friends, have 1 gig adsl lines and they work fine more than most of the time

Could've also strung a 320 gig harddrive around two pidgeon's necks and I'm sure it would have beaten anything

Mordalles · Fri 11/09/2009 21:18:14

it's slow and expensive. :'(

Nacho · Fri 11/09/2009 22:00:11

Welcome back Mordy.

Darth Mandarb · Fri 11/09/2009 23:34:11

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smiley · Fri 11/09/2009 23:51:10

Main problem using pigeons: lots of dropped packets.
And it's vulnerable to a cat-in-the-middle attack.

Of course, you could create a nice P2P (pigeon-to-pigeon) network, given that you have enough seeds and the size of the swarm is sufficient.

Wyz · Sat 12/09/2009 00:04:24

They survive routing problems and power shortages though.

Wonkyth · Sat 12/09/2009 01:44:14

Me and a couple of friends thought of doing a similar thing using a bike, from Melbourne to Sydney.

Gord10 · Sat 12/09/2009 01:54:28

I guess the hot potatoe system could be very effective.

Vince Twelve · Sat 12/09/2009 05:32:34

What the---? A pigeon just landed on my window with a message rolled up on his leg.

It says... "Please post two INGAME screenshots or I'm going to lock this thread."

Wonkyth · Sat 12/09/2009 08:32:08

LOL

Radiant · Sat 12/09/2009 10:26:16

It's been done - officially.

Wyz · Sat 12/09/2009 19:27:06

Yes, also publiced on a special day

tzachs · Sat 12/09/2009 23:49:29

Oooh, the spec talks about built-in worm detection, I'm convinced, I'm switching to pigeons!
Does anybody know of a good pigeon provider (with a friendly API)?