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Blink MUST be in South Africa too!
« on: September 10, 2009, 11:45:37 AM »
Cause with the kinda performance this article expresses... I can imagine we have Blink workers in SF ucking things up... this is still a bit funny though:

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Pigeon protocol offers faster data delivery
The pigeon is mightier than ADSL
By David Neal
Thursday, 10 September 2009, 14:15

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 to use a carrier pigeon to send data than to use the country's biggest web firm, Telkom? Bad news for Telkom - yes, it is.

In the race held yesterday between Howick and Hillcrest, a pigeon named Winston managed to transport a 4GB memory stick 60 miles in just two hours, the same amount of time it took the firm's web connection to transmit just four percent of the data. Of course Telkom said that slow speeds at its customer end have nothing to do with it.

Overall though, estimates suggest that it would have taken days to send the data, which would have given Winston the winged rat loads of time to, er, decorate many statues of military heroes before finally turning up to claim his victory bread crust.

Like Telkom we can't be sure what is wrong with the firm's web connection, but old school methods of delivery have long been favoured by those in the know.

Some people still use the old practice of moving files between machines on floppy disks, remember them? And way back in the 1970s, Dr. Warren Jackson said, "Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes." Nothing has changed, actually.

Winston the pigeon already has over 3,000 friends on Facebook. We don't imagine that anyone at Telkom is one of them. µ

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1533142/pigeon-protocol-offers-faster-delivery

http://pigeonrace2009.co.za/

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Blink MUST be in South Africa too!
« on: September 10, 2009, 11:45:37 AM »

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Re: Blink MUST be in South Africa too!
« Reply #1 on: September 10, 2009, 12:21:57 PM »
Now THAT's funny. 17 in Play Whe FTW. ^_^


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Re: Blink MUST be in South Africa too!
« Reply #2 on: September 10, 2009, 12:39:43 PM »
hahahaha
too funny

and iam sure i can find a way to blame tstt for their suckiness somehow.

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Re: Blink MUST be in South Africa too!
« Reply #3 on: September 10, 2009, 01:30:02 PM »
weeks now i eh have net i rather lose a nut than stay this long without net again

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Re: Blink MUST be in South Africa too!
« Reply #4 on: September 10, 2009, 03:41:15 PM »
weeks now i eh have net i rather lose a nut than stay this long without net again
Wha happen? Blink do an 'upgrade' in yuh area and 'upgraded' yuh bandwidth to 0 oh wha? XD

I had an experience last year where internet left me for... 4-6 weeks I believe it was, doh stick, fill out a TATT complaint form IMMEDIATELY!!!

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Re: Blink MUST be in South Africa too!
« Reply #5 on: September 11, 2009, 01:03:21 AM »
THey upgrade phones in his area to 0.... Ie no net either

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Re: Blink MUST be in South Africa too!
« Reply #6 on: September 11, 2009, 05:53:32 AM »
now that is sad.... lol

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