irelephant 🍭@lemm.ee to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 days agoIs it possible to get/train a carrier pigeon today?message-squaremessage-square27fedilinkarrow-up164arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up164arrow-down1message-squareIs it possible to get/train a carrier pigeon today?irelephant 🍭@lemm.ee to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 days agomessage-square27fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareslazer2au@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·7 days agoI hope you plan to follow the respective standard for avian carriers. RFC 1149, RFC 2549 , and RFC 6214
minus-squareImplyingImplications@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up12·7 days agoReferring to the death of a pigeon as “packet loss” feels like some weird form of low-tech cyberpunk.
minus-squareMonkeyTown@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·edit-27 days agoCarrier pigeons make an excellent bandwidth benchmark though. Sneaker networks (flash drives stores in sneakers) are still some of the highest bandwidth out there.
minus-squareshalafi@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·7 days agoTo this day, nothing beats a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway.
I hope you plan to follow the respective standard for avian carriers.
RFC 1149, RFC 2549 , and RFC 6214
Referring to the death of a pigeon as “packet loss” feels like some weird form of low-tech cyberpunk.
Carrier pigeons make an excellent bandwidth benchmark though.
Sneaker networks (flash drives stores in sneakers) are still some of the highest bandwidth out there.
To this day, nothing beats a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway.
Latency is abysmal though