Comment on Is it possible to get/train a carrier pigeon today?

• ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Referring to the death of a pigeon as “packet loss” feels like some weird form of low-tech cyberpunk.

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  • MonkeyTown@midwest.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Carrier pidgins 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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    • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      To this day, nothing beats a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway.

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      • Hoimo@ani.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        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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    • faercol@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Latency is abysmal though

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