Pigeon protocol offers faster data delivery

By David Neal on Sep 12, 2009 12:43AM

The pigeon is mightier than ADSL.

An unorthodox race in South Africa has revealed that it is faster to transmit 4GB of data via carrier pigeon than it is to send it over the country's main ADSL services. An IT company in Durban decided to hold a competition to test a theory once discussed over a watercooler. Would it be faster ...

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