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Message: <blockquote data-quote="VSGM" data-source="post: 8725964" data-attributes="member: 43384">Just over a year ago, we learned about unhappy users of the South African ISP Telkom in Durban. Some IT workers decided figured that it'd be faster to send a pigeon with a USB stick to the data's destination rather than doing an FTP upload.It was a demonstration of how slow the ISP was, and now the same stunt has been pulled off in England to illustrate a similar point.According to the BBC, a carrier pigeon left East Yorkshire for Lincolnshire and was able to deliver a five-minute video file from Beverley to Wrangle faster than a local broadband connection could upload the same content to a video sharing site.Rory the pigeon completed the task in 80 minutes.This stunt was a part of a campaign to highlight the problem with the county's rural broadband. [YOUTUBE]R0K5_EmKVlU[/YOUTUBE]We Should try this out some time! <img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/default/lol.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":lol:" title="LOL    :lol:" data-shortname=":lol:" /><img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/default/lol.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":lol:" title="LOL    :lol:" data-shortname=":lol:" /></blockquote>

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