BT should use pigeons

[youoldduffer]

Pigeon is 'faster than broadband'

An IT company in Durban, South Africa discovered that a pigeon could carry data faster than broadband.

Staff at Unlimited IT pitted an 11-month-old bird bearing a 4GB memory stick against the ADSL service from the country's biggest web provider, Telkom.

Winston the pigeon took two hours to carry the data 60 miles, the same time it took the ADSL line to send just 4% of the data.

[jimbews]

Pigeon is 'faster than broadband'

An IT company in Durban, South Africa discovered that a pigeon could carry data faster than broadband.

Staff at Unlimited IT pitted an 11-month-old bird bearing a 4GB memory stick against the ADSL service from the country's biggest web provider, Telkom.

Winston the pigeon took two hours to carry the data 60 miles, the same time it took the ADSL line to send just 4% of the data.

But that applies even using faster networks. You have to evaluate the amount of data you need to transfer, then decide the best method.
Memory stick or DVD or external hard disk.

It's what used to be called in the old days "sneaker-net": obviously based on the American use of the term "sneakers".

Of course these were the days when using sneaker-net with a floppy disk was the only available method.

Just be glad you didn't have to work in the days of paper tape, cards or big reels of magnetic tapes.
Then of course there was our first teletype connected at 110 baud (i.e. 0.0001 Mbs) which just about made you deaf.