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Yes, a Pigeon is Faster for Data Transfer than Gigabit Fiber Internet (www.tomshardware.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Good ole sneakernet. It's hard to have dropped packets when they're delivered by hand

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It’s not. Just drop the storage device in a manhole, or get mugged, or break it in some way. Also when you do so, pretty much all packets are lost and to retransmit you need to go back to the point of origin and make a new copy, assuming you still have the original.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Recovery after a lost packet is pretty awful, I'll give you that