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Pigeon Enabled Internet Faster Than ADSL

Urban Weigl · 2005-07-04 22:31:22

In total, 4Gb of data was transferred over 100Km - which, as they point out, is far superior to WiFi. Despite one of the pigeons being delayed, initially appearing to get lost on his journey (packet loss as they refer to it)... http://digital-lifestyles.info/display_page.asp?section=distribution&id=2160

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04-07-2005 11:31pm

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Urban Weigl

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In total, 4Gb of data was transferred over 100Km - which, as they point out, is far superior to WiFi. Despite one of the pigeons being delayed, initially appearing to get lost on his journey (packet loss as they refer to it)...

http://digital-lifestyles.info/display_page.asp?section=distribution&id=2160

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Finally, an implementation of RFC 1149.

Not 100% compliant though.

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#3 04-07-2005 11:52pm
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seamus wrote:

Finally, an implementation of RFC 1149.

Not 100% compliant though.

Nope . .The Bergin Linux group did it years ago. - www.blug.linux.no/rfc1149/

http://www.notes.co.il/benbasat/10991.asp - remember the snails too..

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