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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] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The pigeon wins up to around 600 miles

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Does it? I'm reading 600-700 miles is a one day range for a pigeon. At a gigabit, we're talking only 400 minutes to do 3TB, which is under seven hours. Now I don't know what the pigeon union looks like, but I'm going to assume a day of flying for a pigeon is at least 8 hours.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A pidgeon could carry at least 20 microSD cards.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

But could it carry a coconut?