[117419] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: SA pigeon 'faster than broadband'
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard Bennett)
Fri Sep 11 18:38:36 2009
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 15:37:15 -0700
From: Richard Bennett <richard@bennett.com>
To: surfer@mauigateway.com
In-Reply-To: <20090911152900.A6709CA4@resin13.mta.everyone.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
If this news had come out a little earlier, some pigeon breeding
programs may have qualified for broadband stimulus grants. Edible,
self-replicating IP carriers are pretty special anyhow.
Scott Weeks wrote:
> --- nick@foobar.org wrote:
> So, good news all around. Let's hope that IP over carrier pigeon will
> soon become a thing of the past.
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> 4GB = 32Gb
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> 32Gb in 2 hours is 4.45Mbps. That's a pretty good DSL upstream bandwidth.
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Richard Bennett
Research Fellow
Information Technology and Innovation Foundation
Washington, DC