> On Thu, 10 Sep 2009 17:44:30 +0200, "Barry Murrell ZS2EZ"
> said:
> The real drawback with pigeons is that they stand a good chance of becoming
> someone's dinner before reaching their destination!!
This is why you need retransmissions [1], Barry :-)
And if the pigeon physical layer
>
> 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 sa
Hi Andy & group
This article is just the tip of the proverbial iceberg.. Telkom is a
parastatal organisation (so-called private enterprise of which the
Government is the major shareholder) with a monopoly on telecommunications
services (including all ADSL line provision) for the whole of South
