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I’m switching from RoadRunner to pigeon

Posted at September 23, 2007 8:17 pm | In Networking | By: Ben Woodruff

…but it’s going to be slower than his current modem and there might be a lot of packet loss due to Hawks

Wrong. A 4GB Flash disk can easily be attached to a pigeon’s leg. If round trip time is even 30 min (1800 sec) between his home and the collection point, and only one pigeon is in flight at the time, you get 4GB = 32Gb =~ 32,000,000,000b. 32,000,000,000 bits / 1500 s = 17,777,777 bits / sec = 17 MBps. This is faster than FIOS!

Latency may be a problem as would be packet loss.

-b.

From Slashdot commenter b0s0z0ku.

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