Pigeon-Empowered Wireless Internet

Nice story: some folks conducted a test to compares ADSL and Pigeon Enabled Internet, the pigeon enabled internet seemed to be faster.

A group of several dozen Internet addicts from Israel and abroad, gathered in the large grass field of the OHALO Center near the Sea of Galilee. The purpose of the gathering was to try and improve Wi-Fly - pigeon-empowered wireless internet and to confront this technology against ADSL. The participants sent 3 homing pigeons to 100 km distance, each carrying 20-22 tiny memory cards containing 1.3 GB, amounting in total of 4 GB of data. (…) “Improving the method was achieved by changing the medium on which the message is stored and carried by the pigeons, from paper (as required by the original protocol) to Memory Flash Cards” , said Ben Bassat. Replacing the old analog content transfer by digital one, enables the pigeons to transfer data faster than ADSL, and to achieve what apparently looks as pigeons’ record in data transfer to a given distance.

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9 Responses to “Pigeon-Empowered Wireless Internet”

  1. Isaac Schrödinger Says:
    April 28th, 2005 at 10:32 pm Improvement on Paper
    Q. How fast can a pigeon transfer data? A. Well, the fastest rate seems to be approximately 160 KB/s. Q.

  2. 落，飞翔 Says:
    April 29th, 2005 at 4:02 am 家鸽网络 比 ADSL更快
    pasta and vinegar � Pigeon-Empowered Wireless Internet…

  3. Digital Think Tank Says:
    April 29th, 2005 at 4:48 pm ADSL Follies
    It’s official: pidgeons are faster than ADSL!! A group of users in Israel tested their Wi-Fly network, i.e. pidgeon-powered wireless internet, and found it to be faster than the ADSL infrastructure. Go pidgeons!
    Pidgeon-Empowered wireless internet

  4. My Rant Site %!#@& Says:
    April 29th, 2005 at 5:24 pm Pigeons beat ADSL
    Pigeon-Empowered Wireless Internet…

  5. NQR: Quickies Says:
    April 29th, 2005 at 7:43 pm Pigeons Have Higher Bandwidth Than ADSL
    Pigeons Have Higher Bandwidth Than ADSL

  6. MAC CLUB 06 Says:
    April 30th, 2005 at 2:55 am Jetez votre FreeBox et achetez vite fait un pigeon !
    Un groupe d’originaux s’est livré une expérience qui ne l’est pas moins, originale : vérifier qui est le plus rapide, de l’ADSL et du pigeon voyageur.
    Ils ont effectué leurs tests près de la mer de Gallilée (Israel) avec un groupe de …

  7. NQR: Quickies Says:
    May 2nd, 2005 at 4:23 pm Pigeons Have Higher Bandwidth Than ADSL
    Pigeons Have Higher Bandwidth Than ADSL

  8. MyBlog Says:
    May 5th, 2005 at 12:46 am Motoman livre vos e-mail
    Faute de pigeons, on utilise des motards pour envoyer des e-mails.

  9. we make money not art Says:
    June 28th, 2006 at 7:40 am

    Pigeon lights, Printball and a spinning computer

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