[LINK] Australian internet fails pigeon test

[Kim Holburn]

On 2009/Oct/28, at 11:33 PM, Stilgherrian wrote:
> On 29/10/2009, at 9:13 AM, Bernard Robertson-Dunn quoted iTnews' Ben
> Grubb:
>> "Surely our internet speeds are faster than a pigeon," asked co-host
>> Dan Ilic.
>
> He obviously missed that these are different levels if the IP stack,
> confusing the application with the transport layer.
>
> Have we all forgotten RFC 1149," A Standard for the Transmission of IP
> Datagrams on Avian Carriers"?
> http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1149.html

Nice, love the comments.

Needs to be updated though:
> Avian carriers can provide high delay, low throughput, and low  
> altitude service.
                                          low throughput?

I would think even in back the day that carrier pigeons could provide  
high throughput.  As the old saying goes: "Never underestimate the  
bandwidth of a claw full of microfilm!"

Kim

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