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Pigeons are faster than DSL

Sep 23, 2009, 18:06 (0 Talkback[s])
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"A Durban IT company pitted an 11-month-old bird armed with a 4GB memory stick against the ADSL service from the country's biggest web firm, Telkom.

"Winston the pigeon took two hours to carry the data 60 miles - in the same time the ADSL had sent 4% of the data."

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