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

submitted 1 year ago by L4s to c/technology

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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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[–] Sludgeyy 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yes and no.

If you could put a 1 petabyte flash drive on a pigeon, it would easily crush the gigabit internet

Does a 1 petabyte flash drive exist? Could it exist?

They put 3 stripped-down terabyte flash drives on the pigeon. Could it carry more weight?

You get to the point where the pigeon can't carry the weight.

All this is saying that sending data by pigeon can be faster and using 3 tb sticks proves it.

If it needed to be 4 tb, then they would have had to use 4 sticks. If it couldn't carry 4 sticks, then you have your answer that the pigeon can't do it with current technology.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

We need to RAID pigeons in case of hawk outage.
More redundancy!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

RAID: Redundant Avians Indemnifying Death

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

you're saying that a 12-ounce bird can carry no more than three flash drives?

[–] Sludgeyy 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You missed the point of what I was saying

2 tb flash drives are expensive but exist

Pigeon could carry 4 tb in 2 flash drives worth of weight.

But simply 3 1 tb drives a pigeon can carry so they did that.

If they had to transfer 5 tb of data to win. 3 2 tb drives would have worked.

This article just states that a pigeon can carry 3 1 tb drives and deliver it faster than gigabit internet.

They didn't need to push the envelope anymore

So yes they calculated that the pigeon could carry 3 drives and that 3 tb was all that was needed to carry to win.

But they didn't set up the experiment to favor the pigeon. They set it up to prove it could be done that way.

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

So you're saying it's a simple question of weight ratios?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

But what if it was an African Swallow?