[LINK] Australian internet fails pigeon test

[David Lochrin]

On Monday 02 November 2009 09:45, Stilgherrian wrote:
> I'm thinking that a better transport layer than paper might work,  
> though. Bigger MTU, then HUGE data packets on 32GB USB sticks, 
> one each leg for redundancy,

...not to mention flight stability.

Two 32Mbyte memory sticks in a pidgeon travelling 10 Km at 10 Km/hr (so he takes 3,600 seconds for the trip) works out at a bandwidth of 142.22 Mbits/sec I believe.

Sorry about that... back to marking...

David