Comment on Is it possible to get/train a carrier pigeon today?
ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 6 days agoReferring to the death of a pigeon as “packet loss” feels like some weird form of low-tech cyberpunk.
Comment on Is it possible to get/train a carrier pigeon today?
ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 6 days agoReferring to the death of a pigeon as “packet loss” feels like some weird form of low-tech cyberpunk.
MonkeyTown@midwest.social 6 days ago
Carrier pidgins make an excellent bandwidth benchmark though.
Sneaker networks (flash drives stores in sneakers) are still some of the highest bandwidth out there.
shalafi@lemmy.world 6 days ago
To this day, nothing beats a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway.
Hoimo@ani.social 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.
faercol@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 days ago
Latency is abysmal though