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hifidelity2
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Location: London
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11325452so next time you complain about speed...get a pigeon 
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| Thu Sep 16, 2010 1:01 pm |
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jonbwfc
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Suggestion in the office here to increase your 'pigeon broadband bandwidth.'
Instead of strapping a memory stick or whatever to the pigeon, put a tiny radio beacon on it. Then have a small automatic helicopter drone which is designed to follow the pigeon's beacon and has an inbuilt SSD hard drive, say 40GB.
Optionally, strap into the drone small models of a furtive looking man with a large stripey hat and thin moustache and a scruffy looking dog.
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| Thu Sep 16, 2010 1:12 pm |
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JJW009
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IPoAC has a long history; RFC 2549, IP over Avian Carriers with Quality of Service (1 April 1999). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_over_Avian_Carriers"this technology suffers from poor latency. Nevertheless, for large transfers avian carriers are capable of high average throughput when carrying flash memory devices." _________________jonbwfc's law: "In any forum thread someone will, no matter what the subject, mention Firefly." When you're feeling too silly for x404, youRwired.net
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pcernie
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'A FOI request today revealed that MI5 has lost 300 pigeons in the last year...'
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| Thu Sep 16, 2010 6:11 pm |
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Nick
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Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 11:36 pm
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Location: Portsmouth
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Why do people who live in the countryside demand a fast Internet connection?? 100-200kbps on a farm seems fine to me.
It's ridiculous - you can't have everything. I live in the city so I have a reasonable connection. The thing is tho, my wildlife and scenery is naff - I only have rats, mice, pigeons and the occasional fox. Where are my dear, owls and meadows??
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| Thu Sep 16, 2010 7:29 pm |
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forquare1
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I hardly live in the countryside, but I am fairly remote, I'd like a faster internet connection. I have the sea, you have the sea, I have hills, and you have hills...
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| Thu Sep 16, 2010 7:31 pm |
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Nick
Spends far too much time on here
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Location: Portsmouth
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I have hills?????
I don't need meadows and wildlife. I've chosen to live in the city because I want the convenience and facilities. One of the things I like about it is the comms infra-structure.
You've chosen to live in a "fairly remote" location so it can't be that important to you or you'd have chosen to live somewhere else.
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Amnesia10
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Left them on trains?  _________________Do concentrate, 007... "You are gifted. Mine is bordering on seven seconds." https://www.dropbox.com/referrals/NTg5MzczNTkhttp://astore.amazon.co.uk/wwwx404couk-21
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| Thu Sep 16, 2010 9:03 pm |
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big_D
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Location: Bramsche
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The agency I worked for still used a courier and external hard drives for transferring data between the studio and the office. Carrying a days shoot in an external drive would take about 1.5 hours, uploading it to the office servers would take about a week...
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| Fri Sep 17, 2010 8:26 am |
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hifidelity2
I haven't seen my friends in so long
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Location: London
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Amnesia10
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Yes but it will make inception of bit torrent by pigeon harder to detect.  _________________Do concentrate, 007... "You are gifted. Mine is bordering on seven seconds." https://www.dropbox.com/referrals/NTg5MzczNTkhttp://astore.amazon.co.uk/wwwx404couk-21
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| Fri Sep 17, 2010 11:13 am |
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belchingmatt
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Why do people in cities demand and expect fresh food? Come on Nick, your argument is getting a little old and tired.
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Amnesia10
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Actually this test could be just as valid with motor cycle couriers.
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