[LINK] Australian internet fails pigeon test

[David Lochrin]

On Monday 02 November 2009 16:31, you 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.

Not my calculator...(:-)  Stil's message referred to 32 Gigabyte memory sticks, not 32 Megabyte sticks, and I based the calculation on that.  Sorry about the typo.

Carrier Pidgeon technology has major congestion problems too, even worse than wireless, so the effective data rate might well be closer to 112 Kbits/sec.

David