Comment on Yes, a Pigeon is Faster for Data Transfer than Gigabit Fiber Internet
Agamemnon@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Haha, in some parts of germany you can do that yourself. on foot. with a zipdisk.
Comment on Yes, a Pigeon is Faster for Data Transfer than Gigabit Fiber Internet
Agamemnon@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Haha, in some parts of germany you can do that yourself. on foot. with a zipdisk.
rockSlayer@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Good ole sneakernet. It’s hard to have dropped packets when they’re delivered by hand
c10l@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It’s not. Just drop the storage device in a manhole, or get mugged, or break it in some way. Also when you do so, pretty much all packets are lost and to retransmit you need to go back to the point of origin and make a new copy, assuming you still have the original.
rockSlayer@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Recovery after a lost packet is pretty awful, I’ll give you that