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I've had a slight obession with them recently, is it possible?

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I hope you plan to follow the respective standard for avian carriers.

RFC 1149, RFC 2549 , and RFC 6214

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Referring to the death of a pigeon as "packet loss" feels like some weird form of low-tech cyberpunk.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

Carrier pigeons make an excellent bandwidth benchmark though.

Sneaker networks (flash drives stores in sneakers) are still some of the highest bandwidth out there.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

To this day, nothing beats a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

The bandwidth of a station wagon just keeps increasing with advances in storage technology.

But a 10Gb/s line will do about 100TB in a day, so there's not that many situations left where you have enough data to make the station wagon worth the effort. Wikipedia has a few examples, with the most recent being a truck doing 100PB for AWS. I think we passed station wagon station 10 years ago.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

Latency is abysmal though