Carrier Pidgeon beats Bigpond

[Arpit]

On Wed, 29 Oct 2003 20:18:09 +1100, "Phil Allison"
<philallison@optusnet.com.au> wrote:

"Andrew Howard" <andtfoot@hotpop.com> wrote in message
news:rVKnb.169584$bo1.120445@news-server.bigpond.net.au...
"Phil Allison" wrote in message...
Hi to all,

who saw the ACA item tonight where a humble, grey, female pigeon
with
a 64MB memory chip tied to its leg was put in a race with Bigpond Dial Up
Internet to deliver that much data to a town 30 kilometres away ??

The pigeon won hands down.



Unfortunately, there are a couple of problems with this test. Sure it's
good
for the fun value, but has no real worth.

** You did not see the item so cannot say.


Why couldn't you just strap a couple of dvds.


** Huh ? To a pigeon ?

100 pack spindle over each leg

Even cable, regardless of ISP,
would have trouble trying to download this much in the time that was not
specified.


** The memory module was not by any means full of data - just a few
emails IIRC.


Besides, the test could have been done with Optus, or whatever, with the
same results.


** Since there is only one set of phone lines in the area - naturally.



........... Phil