>
> A Durban IT company pitted an 11-month-old bird armed with a 4GB memory
> stick against the ADSL service from the country's biggest web firm,
> Telkom.
>
> Winston the pigeon took two hours to carry the data 60 miles - in the same
> time the ADSL had sent 4% of the data.
>

A related story I saw a few years ago compared a pony express
rider carrying a saddlebag full of DVD's to a T1 line.  The
pony express rider blew away the T1 line in terms of bit "rate".

Rick Karlquist N6RK

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