Can a pigeon with 3 TB of flash drives outrun gigabit ISP transfers?

Yes, a Pigeon is Faster for Data Transfer than Gigabit Fiber Internet::A decade ago, a pigeon with a 4 GB memory stick outran an ISP’s ADSL service. A 2023 rematch features a bird with 3 TB of flash drives vs gigabit internet.

  • @Sludgeyy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2•1 year ago

    You missed the point of what I was saying

    2 tb flash drives are expensive but exist

    Pigeon could carry 4 tb in 2 flash drives worth of weight.

    But simply 3 1 tb drives a pigeon can carry so they did that.

    If they had to transfer 5 tb of data to win. 3 2 tb drives would have worked.

    This article just states that a pigeon can carry 3 1 tb drives and deliver it faster than gigabit internet.

    They didn’t need to push the envelope anymore

    So yes they calculated that the pigeon could carry 3 drives and that 3 tb was all that was needed to carry to win.

    But they didn’t set up the experiment to favor the pigeon. They set it up to prove it could be done that way.