Faster than a speeding pigeon – no actually
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Debbie Brixey here – DU Tutor for South London
Having spent many years being frustrated by Internet speeds often not being what they were claimed to be it was with great amusement I came acros the story of Winston vs broadband.
Winston is an 11 month old pigeon who lives in South Africa.
An IT company decided to test Winston carrying 4GB of data against one of South Africa’s biggest web firms conveying the same amount of information via ADSL …the pigeon won!
Under strict race conditions – no cats, no performance enhancing birdseed the pigeon still arrived with the data far quicker than the telecommunications giant. To see the full story http://xrl.us/bfjred
September 10th, 2009 debbiebrixey | No Comments »
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