Snails faster than ADSL - Time to change our logo thing

damien

We need to get rid of the snail in our logo now that it's shown that snails can transfer data quickly.

http://www.notes.co.il/benbasat/10991.asp

The experiment conceived and run by a group of Israeli Internet addicts, including Yossi Vardi (former ICQ chairman), Shimon Schocken (computer scientist) and Ami Ben Bassat (science writer).

The system called SNAP (SNAil-based data transfer Protocol(, uses biological carriers, and, for the first time, taking advantages of the unique merits of the wheel for data transfer.

Results: Calculations that were conducted after the experiment, explicitly proved that in spite of the relatively, very slow, speed of the biological carriers, the Snap system succeeded in transferring data faster than any other conventional technologies, existing today.

Please note all measured times were recorded by an observer on the ground. If measured by the moving snail itself, times would have been a bit shorter, according to Einstein's relativity theory, resulting in slightly greater bps rates.

How long before we see the DCMNR consider this idea ?

cgarvey

Yes, but did they factor in the time to compile, burn and extract the CDs?

Urban Weigl

They could double the speed by using dual layer DVD's, and it could be dubbed SNAP2+

Denial of service: In some regions, most notably France, culinary habits may pose a denial-of-service (DOS) risk. In particular, French users will have to choose whether they want to be served data-ex-cargo or an escargot.

SkepticOne

cgarvey wrote:

Yes, but did they factor in the time to compile, burn and extract the CDs?

This may result in high latency or "ping" times but the overall transfer rate should still be high. Probably not good for gaming, VoIP, VPNs and other latency sensitive applications.

Dero

So, SNAP == satellite? Equipment costs should be a bit lower though.

Blaster99

Somebody told me that in the beginning of the internet there were people who were selling the internet on mail-order. They had downloaded lots of stuff on CD's and you could order a copy. Similar idea...

Blaster99

Come to think of it, this is propably still a viable business idea in Ireland. Selling internet content to people in Donegal etc...

oscarBravo

Don't laugh. Until we set up our own broadband service, it was quicker for my neighbour to drive the 20 miles to Castlebar with a Zip disk than to send a couple of meg by email.

Capt'n Midnight

oscarBravo wrote:

Don't laugh. Until we set up our own broadband service, it was quicker for my neighbour to drive the 20 miles to Castlebar with a Zip disk than to send a couple of meg by email.

The nice thing about snails is you trace the routing fairly easily.

Similar schemes:
www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1149.html - original std
www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2549.html - extension

www.blug.linux.no/rfc1149/ - implementation of RFC 1149

the_syco

Before 2000, there was some nut who was using leeches to carry the data.


Soon, it'll be humans:eek:

Capt'n Midnight

the_syco wrote:

Soon, it'll be humans:eek:

You've never heard of ye olde sneakernet then ?

Cabaal

Capt'n Midnight wrote:

You've never heard of ye olde sneakernet then ?

ah good old wikipedia