Ami Ben-Bassat reports:
"On Friday, March 12, 2004, a group of several dozen Internet addicts from Israel and abroad, gathered in the large grass field of the OHALO Center near the Sea of Galilee. The purpose of the gathering was to try and improve Wi-Fly - pigeon-empowered wireless internet and to confront this technology against ADSL. The participants sent 3 homing pigeons to 100 km distance, each carrying 20-22 tiny memory cards containing 1.3 GB, amounting in total of 4 GB of data. ..."
Ben-Bassat reports that by using this new variant on TCP (Transmission by Carrier Pigeon), the researchers achieved a data-transfer rate of 2.27M bit/sec, compared to standard DSL rates of roughly 0.75 to 1.5M bit/sec. And it requires no wireless equipment yet has a much longer range than Wi-FI. However, he notes that Wi-Fly has high latency - it takes the first bit longer to arrive - bandwith drops to zero at night, since that is when pigeons roost and that, unlike DSL, pigeons tend to poop on one's car and head.
Via Community Broadband Networks.
Back to CompendiumLOL! This is great!
Posted by: dave on April 9, 2004 11:41 AMPost a comment
