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Slow internet speeds have ruffled the feathers of an IT firm in South Africa so much that it proved its local broadband supplier cannot even keep up with a pigeon. Unlimited IT, of Durban, showed that a courier pigeon its staff wired up with a 4GB memory card was quicker at carrying data over the same distance than web provider Telkom. Unlimited said that their racing bird Winston took two hours to carry the data 60 miles up the road – in the same time their ADSL line had sent just 4 per cent of the data. The experiment came after the firm decided to test one of its employees’ claims that the speed of data transmission on its ADSL was so slow that a carrier pigeon would do the job faster. Although Telkom has reportedly said it was not to blame for the slow speeds, Unlimited maintained its staff face “great challenges in getting data from its locations across [the region] back to its central location for storage.” But the firm said the test was as fair as possible, by not compressing the data, by ensuring its size and distance to travel was the same, and, it stressed, by checking Winston’s birdseed did not contain “any performance enhancing seeds.” Sep 15, 2009 Email this article Printer friendly page Previous Page
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