Messenger Pigeon Faster Faster Than SA Internet

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.

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[OneTop]

11:35 PM on 09/10/2009

Thank goodness they didn't have com.ca.st ... the bird could have stopped off for a few pints and still beat em!

[Sing Out and Slap Iron]

06:18 PM on 09/10/2009

That's gonna be a nightmare for the folks covering the World Cup next year.

[FrTown]

09:57 AM on 09/18/2009

Actually, most foreign news services, hotels, etc. rely on satellite signals to connect to the internet. And those mobile dishes can be set up in less than a week.

[Colloquielle]

01:14 PM on 09/10/2009

Bahah! If they're embarrassing an ISP like that, imagine how Royal Mail would stack up?

[digitalprophet]

12:02 PM on 09/10/2009

I am gonna go ahead and say this is pretty awesome.