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Yes, a Pigeon is Faster for Data Transfer than Gigabit Fiber Internet (www.tomshardware.com)

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Yes, a Pigeon is Faster for Data Transfer than Gigabit Fiber Internet::A decade ago, a pigeon with a 4 GB memory stick outran an ISP’s ADSL service. A 2023 rematch features a bird with 3 TB of flash drives vs gigabit internet.

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[–] [email protected] 226 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Yeah, but having that ping time of 36,000,000ms really kind of sucks.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Also having to manually bring the pigeon back to the launching site, because pigeons only work one way.

[–] Tranus 29 points 1 year ago

What if you attached two one-way pigeons together to make a two-way pidgeon? It would probably take a piece of string, and a coconut...

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