Slow internet speeds? It might be faster to use a pigeon.

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• Ravi@feddit.de ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s awesome how much you can pack on a horse. A 4tb Samsung 990 Pro weights 9g. Let’s say a horse can carry 450kg. Thats 450.000g / 9g/4tb = 50.000 × 4 tb = 200 pt. Latency is shit though.

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  • cheese_greater@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That level of latency is—dare I say it?—horseshit

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  • shotgun_crab@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Routing may also be problematic, and potential packet loss

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  • TimeSquirrel@kbin.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    What layer is the horse? Transport or physical?

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• geekworking@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Throughput is good, but the 4 day pings are a killer.

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  • Dasnap@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    But I can play chess-by-pigeon with 10,000,000 people simultaneously!

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• sramder@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  IP Datagrams Via Avian Carrier :-)

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  • bionicjoey@lemmy.ca ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Don’t forget the QoS extension

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    • sramder@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I was unaware of the proposed QoS extension :-)

      Unintentional encapsulation in hawks has been known to occur, with decapsulation being messy and the packets mangled.

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  • silence7@slrpnk.net ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That manages to achieve both high latency and low throughput. The few times I’ve seen people use pigeons to move data (instead of a truck or airplane) it’s involved attaching a micro-sd card to their leg. This works remarkably well.

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    • sramder@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’m legitimately in awe of carrier pidgins. The guy my folks bought their house from use to rase some, two years after we moved in one found its way back. That same bird showed up for 2 more years, nesting for a month, then (presumably) flew back to his new home.

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    • gnate@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Don’t forget to quantify the latency (pingeon.)

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• stoy@lemmy.zip ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That is a very high bandwidth, but extremely high latency network link

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• FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Pain in the ass to watch Netflix that way though.

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  • silence7@slrpnk.net ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That’s basically how the old DVD service worked.

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  • killeronthecorner@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Is this the tier below ads?

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