[LINK] Australian internet fails pigeon test

[Scott Howard]

On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 6:39 PM, David Lochrin <dlochrin at d2.net.au> wrote:

> 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.
>

Err.. I think your calculator is broken...

32 MBytes, times 2 cards is 64 MBytes, times that by 8 to get 512MBits

3600 seconds in an hour, so divive that by 3600 and you get 0.142 Megabits
per second.  AKA, 112 KBits/second.

Or about half the speed of the normal slowest ADSL products _outbound_ (ie,
256KBits/sec), and of course that's the catch with this entire test - they
were testing the slower of ADSL's upload and download speeds, which means
they were testing the upload speed, which for 99% of the population will
rarely if ever be a limiting factor.

  Scott.