Is it possible to get/train a carrier pigeon today?
Is it possible to get/train a carrier pigeon today?
I've had a slight obession with them recently, is it possible?
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I don’t know anything about it, so hopefully someone else has more experience, but I found this, so I assume the answer is yes.
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Great, this is much cheaper than my original plan of laying 9 kilometers of copper wire. Thanks!
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Referring to the death of a pigeon as "packet loss" feels like some weird form of low-tech cyberpunk.
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Carrier pigeons make an excellent bandwidth benchmark though.
Sneaker networks (flash drives stores in sneakers) are still some of the highest bandwidth out there.
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To this day, nothing beats a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway.
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The bandwidth of a station wagon just keeps increasing with advances in storage technology.
But a 10Gb/s line will do about 100TB in a day, so there's not that many situations left where you have enough data to make the station wagon worth the effort. Wikipedia has a few examples, with the most recent being a truck doing 100PB for AWS. I think we passed station wagon station 10 years ago.
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Latency is abysmal though
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