Is your internet faster than carrier pigeons?
Friday, October 15, 2010 at 10:06AM Carrier pigeons have won a race against rural broad band after delivering USB keys more quickly than a computer using rural broadband was able to download.
Ten pigeons carrying USB keys were released from a Yorkshire farm on Thursday. They reached their destination in Skegness, 120 miles away, within an hour and a quarter.
Campaigners said the stunt was being carried out to illustrate that broadband in some parts of the UK is still “not fit for purpose”.
Last year a similar experiment in Durban, South Africa saw Winston the pigeon take two hours to finish a 96km journey. In the same time just 4% of a 4GB file had downloaded.
“The farm we are using has a connection of around 100 to 200 Kbps (kilobits per second),” Tref Davies, the stunt’s organiser, said.
Mr Davies, who is co-founder of business ISP Timico and serves on the board of ISPA (Internet Service Providers’ Association), said: “This is the UK. It should be well-connected but around a third of homes still can’t get broadband.”
However, BT disputes his figures. A spokesperson said that 99 per cent of homes could now get broadband, leaving an estimated 160,000 lines “where excessive line length means broadband won’t work”.
Research commissioned by the BBC last year found that around three million homes in the UK had internet connections of below 2Mbps (megabits per second).
Article courtesy of: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/8007897/Carrier-pigeons-are-faster-than-rural-broadband.html
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