irelephant [he/him]🍭@lemm.ee to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoIs it possible to get/train a carrier pigeon today?message-squaremessage-square27linkfedilinkarrow-up164arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up164arrow-down1message-squareIs it possible to get/train a carrier pigeon today?irelephant [he/him]🍭@lemm.ee to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square27linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squareImplyingImplications@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up12·2 months 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-22 months 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-up6·2 months agoTo this day, nothing beats a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway.
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