The most unconventional internet speed test.

Yep, it really happened.
This video tells the story of Winston the carrier pigeon, whom achieved something very few pigeons ever have and made history for it.
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[@Venistro]

This is how we test Internet speeds in Germany today. Only, unfortunately, the pigeon very often wins...

[@ardnys35]

scientists used a "similar" method to transport data for the black hole image from a few years ago. they had lots of wave data all over the world and all data had to be brought in a place to be analysed and construct the image. they transferred the data by flying them across the globe with planes. i am sure they would use pigeons too if the distance was tad bit smaller.

[@Rattlehead15]

Just yesterday one of my friends was trying to download Baldur's Gate 3 but his download was going really slow, so we just moved the files to a hard drive and drove to his house instead! We wanted to prove Tanenbaum's quote about a wagon full of hard drives right lol

[@caramelapple5562]

how did you get the files on a hard drive? have someone with faster internet download it?

[@perz1val]

I love this story. Telling people about IPoAC is a good conversation starter too. There's also the saying, "never underestimate a bandwidth of a station wagon full of magnetic tape going on a highway"... or something like that, I don't remember exactly

[@harrytsang1501]

Truck full of hard drives on a highway has the bandwidth between a few terabytes per second and a few petabytes per second, depending on how far you go

[@kingofgamesyamiyami6269]

Let's put some numbers on this! Western Digital has 22 TB drives available, each weighing under 700 grams. An 18 wheeler can carry approximately 20 metric tons of cargo. So about 28,000 hard drives. That's 600 petabytes of data. Assume the truck travels for 1 hour to it's destination. That gives us approximately 160 Terabytes per second.

[@Thect]

This is why we should have carrier pigeons in every house and business, just in case the internet is down and we need to use IPoAC to communicate

[@dreamsofcode]

Chess might be the only viable online game in that case

[@ripple123]

not surprised. here in south africa, we have powercuts which can last anywhere from 2-10 hours a day

[@soulergy1soulrgy1]

Sending data by pigeon works unless it's send by a stool pigeon!

[@FritsStegmann]

Software dev from South africa. If my memory serves me correctly the pigeon race was a marketing stunt to demonstrate how bad Telkom was as ISP. Which at the time was pretty bad compared to the rest of the world.

[@landscapesandmotion]

With the amount of data density increases, and if you don’t take into account loading the data on the card, won’t the pigeon almost always win? You can get mini-SD with 2TB of data.

[@dreamsofcode]

You're correct. Certainly over shorter distances, which is an interesting phenomenon.

[@Domze_]

I have no clue how humans are able to command a pigeon to "deliver this message to Rome," and then the pigeon just casually flies there.

[@JokNavi]

The pidgeon's mate lives in rome. and they are able to find eachother from literally across the world.

[@caramelapple5562]

i believe the pigeon is raised in rome, manually brought somewhere else, and then when it's released it automatically flies back to its nest

[@tomiis4]

I'm not sure, but wasn't first story about workers in company who complained about slow internet?

[@bennesp]

How is it possible that in less than 24 hours I have the same video under two different points of view by you and Jeff Geerling? Why are pigeons a so hot topics right now? Just curious

[@dreamsofcode]

A complete coincidence! Someone else also mentioned it.

[@bennesp]

@@dreamsofcode I guess then that you were more astonished than me 😅😅 great video!

[@floriankapfenberger]

Jeff Geerling just uploaded a video about the same topic. What a coincidence 😅

[@dreamsofcode]

Yeah that is kinda spooky lol. I wonder if we were both inspired by the same source.

[@shayes.x]

You're telling me RFC 1149 has some merit?

[@dreamsofcode]

It definitely has an implementation haha

[@FKNNXTLVL]

I live in the city and have up to 30/3Mbit's for 35€ **try not to cry**

[@CottidaeSEA]

I pay less, got 1Gbit/s on a good day and 500Mbit/s on a bad day. 5G internet. My previous had something similar to yours (a bit slower) for the same cost as the current though. I'm still not a huge fan of mobile internet though, because I could move the router a bit and my speed would get dropkicked down to unusable.

[@maxdarner5672]

1tb sd = gigabit IPoAC

[@victortesla2935]

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[@dreamsofcode]

I've got a schedule for NVChad videos which is about once a month at the moment. Although, the Null-ls news has delayed this one. Next one is Node.js as per the channel member selection.