Comments on: Pigeon beats ADSL handsdown .. classic. http://www.henriska.com/blog/?p=615&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=pigeon-beats-adsl-handsdown-classic My view of the world and anything that might interest me. Thu, 09 Sep 2010 15:44:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Marius http://www.henriska.com/blog/?p=615&cpage=1#comment-197284 Marius Fri, 11 Sep 2009 09:25:51 +0000 http://www.henriska.com/blog/?p=615#comment-197284 Tim, I agree 100% with you .. In SA, Telkom is known for their bad service and monolistic behaviour and I believe this exercise was more a public stunt to highlight the broadband issues we as South African have to cope with on a daily basis. And by looking at all the press it got, it did succeed in its overall goal. Tim, I agree 100% with you ..

In SA, Telkom is known for their bad service and monolistic behaviour and I believe this exercise was more a public stunt to highlight the broadband issues we as South African have to cope with on a daily basis. And by looking at all the press it got, it did succeed in its overall goal.

]]> By: Tim http://www.henriska.com/blog/?p=615&cpage=1#comment-197283 Tim Fri, 11 Sep 2009 09:02:56 +0000 http://www.henriska.com/blog/?p=615#comment-197283 It's a slightly unfair test; your broadband is ADSL. The A stands for 'asymmetric' - upload speeds on such things are always very slow. On my home cable broadband, yes, I can download at about 2 megabits, but my upload speed is a pathetic 256kbit. In fact, it's worse than that - many broadband systems automatically throttle connections which saturate their upload bandwidth (Virgin in the UK certainly do), and I'm lucky if I can sustain half that. The behaviour of your system is completely typical for asymmetric broadband. If you need good upload speed, then you need to pay for a proper leased line, which will be very expensive compared to your ADSL. Now, I agree that most ISPs are terrible in one way or another, but in this case it's more or less working the way it's intended to. You need a much more expensive product if you want high speed uploads. Having said that, sending storage by non-digital methods is still the fastest way to send large amounts of data, even if you have ludicrously good internet connectivity. Where I work we have a 1 gigabit leased line, which costs a fortune. But we regularly have to send terabytes of data to other sites around the world, and we do it by sending USB desktop hard drives by courier. Nothing beats the bandwidth of disk drives in a van... It’s a slightly unfair test; your broadband is ADSL. The A stands for ‘asymmetric’ – upload speeds on such things are always very slow. On my home cable broadband, yes, I can download at about 2 megabits, but my upload speed is a pathetic 256kbit. In fact, it’s worse than that – many broadband systems automatically throttle connections which saturate their upload bandwidth (Virgin in the UK certainly do), and I’m lucky if I can sustain half that. The behaviour of your system is completely typical for asymmetric broadband. If you need good upload speed, then you need to pay for a proper leased line, which will be very expensive compared to your ADSL.

Now, I agree that most ISPs are terrible in one way or another, but in this case it’s more or less working the way it’s intended to. You need a much more expensive product if you want high speed uploads.

Having said that, sending storage by non-digital methods is still the fastest way to send large amounts of data, even if you have ludicrously good internet connectivity. Where I work we have a 1 gigabit leased line, which costs a fortune. But we regularly have to send terabytes of data to other sites around the world, and we do it by sending USB desktop hard drives by courier. Nothing beats the bandwidth of disk drives in a van…

]]> By: Famous last words of Marius » The day this blog made the front page of Slashdot – fame at last. http://www.henriska.com/blog/?p=615&cpage=1#comment-197101 Famous last words of Marius » The day this blog made the front page of Slashdot – fame at last. Wed, 09 Sep 2009 15:28:25 +0000 http://www.henriska.com/blog/?p=615#comment-197101 [...] As mentioned before, I got slashdotted and here is a screenshot to commemorate that occurance.  This screen capture is from my Google Reader RSS feed of Slashdot.  The highlighted piece above is the text that was link to my blog post.  [...] [...] As mentioned before, I got slashdotted and here is a screenshot to commemorate that occurance.  This screen capture is from my Google Reader RSS feed of Slashdot.  The highlighted piece above is the text that was link to my blog post.  [...]

]]> By: Marius http://www.henriska.com/blog/?p=615&cpage=1#comment-197093 Marius Wed, 09 Sep 2009 14:17:13 +0000 http://www.henriska.com/blog/?p=615#comment-197093 Thanks Walter -- think nobody thought otherwise .. have created a new post about the win - <a href="http://www.henriska.com/blog/?p=625" rel="nofollow">http://www.henriska.com/blog/?p=625</a> Thanks Walter — think nobody thought otherwise .. have created a new post about the win – http://www.henriska.com/blog/?p=625

]]> By: Famous last words of Marius » Pigeon – 1; Telkom – 0 http://www.henriska.com/blog/?p=615&cpage=1#comment-197088 Famous last words of Marius » Pigeon – 1; Telkom – 0 Wed, 09 Sep 2009 14:11:01 +0000 http://www.henriska.com/blog/?p=615#comment-197088 [...] mentioned in a previous post, a Pigeon raced against Telkom today to transfer 4GB of data over a distance of about [...] [...] mentioned in a previous post, a Pigeon raced against Telkom today to transfer 4GB of data over a distance of about [...]

]]> By: Walter Pike http://www.henriska.com/blog/?p=615&cpage=1#comment-197085 Walter Pike Wed, 09 Sep 2009 13:12:32 +0000 http://www.henriska.com/blog/?p=615#comment-197085 The pigeon won easily: http://www.news24.com/Content/SciTech/985/1bc8b09e39b043928317dc769d4196e4/09-09-2009-12-23/Pigeon_beats_Telkom The pigeon won easily:

http://www.news24.com/Content/SciTech/985/1bc8b09e39b043928317dc769d4196e4/09-09-2009-12-23/Pigeon_beats_Telkom

]]> By: Mike http://www.henriska.com/blog/?p=615&cpage=1#comment-197078 Mike Wed, 09 Sep 2009 10:04:59 +0000 http://www.henriska.com/blog/?p=615#comment-197078 I'm in London - I pay £16 (R150) for unlimited usage (no cap...cap, what's a cap?) at 4-8gig speed... i really feel sorry for friends back home in SA... I’m in London – I pay £16 (R150) for unlimited usage (no cap…cap, what’s a cap?) at 4-8gig speed… i really feel sorry for friends back home in SA…

]]> By: Bruce http://www.henriska.com/blog/?p=615&cpage=1#comment-197073 Bruce Wed, 09 Sep 2009 08:41:16 +0000 http://www.henriska.com/blog/?p=615#comment-197073 Haha classic! I am currently living in the UK and have 20mb Fibre Optic broadband through Virgin. It costs me 20 pounds a month with no cap. I download at about 2.3mb a second. Every time I start missing home I just think of the crappy service Telkom gives and their over-inlated prices and I feel a lot better. I would say a Pigeon is unfair competition. You should strap the micro SD card to the shell of a Snail and send it on its way! Thats more like it... Haha classic! I am currently living in the UK and have 20mb Fibre Optic broadband through Virgin. It costs me 20 pounds a month with no cap. I download at about 2.3mb a second. Every time I start missing home I just think of the crappy service Telkom gives and their over-inlated prices and I feel a lot better.

I would say a Pigeon is unfair competition. You should strap the micro SD card to the shell of a Snail and send it on its way! Thats more like it…

]]> By: Drew http://www.henriska.com/blog/?p=615&cpage=1#comment-197072 Drew Wed, 09 Sep 2009 07:10:31 +0000 http://www.henriska.com/blog/?p=615#comment-197072 In all seriousness have a look at Riverbed, www.riverbed.com. We have a few sites using it due to the compression and deduplicating of data. But, very nice write up, I laughed very hard. In all seriousness have a look at Riverbed, http://www.riverbed.com. We have a few sites using it due to the compression and deduplicating of data.

But, very nice write up, I laughed very hard.

]]> By: Dave http://www.henriska.com/blog/?p=615&cpage=1#comment-197071 Dave Wed, 09 Sep 2009 06:54:50 +0000 http://www.henriska.com/blog/?p=615#comment-197071 Brilliant! Please keep this updated. Ek kry so lekker dat Helkom uiteindelik hulle gate sien (: Brilliant! Please keep this updated. Ek kry so lekker dat Helkom uiteindelik hulle gate sien (:

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