Linked by Jordan Spencer Cunningham on Thu 10th Sep 2009 20:45 UTC
In an attempt to show just how slow South Africa's Telkom broadband is, a frustrated IT company had a race to see which would be faster: transferring 4GB by sending a USB drive via pigeon 60 miles away, or transferring the files via the broadband connection. There were even rules in place so as to not have any unfair advantage over the broadband such as "birdseed must not have any performance-enhancing seeds within." It was faster to send the data by pigeon than by broadband. It took the bird about an hour to reach the recipient station, and it took another hour to transfer the data to the other computer. The file being transferred via the broadband connection was still at 4%. Telkom said that it is not responsible for the firm's slow Internet speed. Winston, the bird, is safely back in the IT office, probably enjoying birdseed without any performance-enhancing caplets mixed in.
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2 minuts that is 33MB/s or 266mbit and even if usb 2.0 is speced out at 480mbit i dont truly think it will hit that speed. i have a hard time finding a stick that will handle 25MB/s (well not if you read the manafactures spec)
3 or 4 minuts sounds more reasonable =)
Edited 2009-09-12 01:41 UTC
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2005-11-11
It seems you have no idea how slow USB sticks usually are.