For many in France, the idea of having an ADSL connection is still an idea. There are many areas that are either to far from an exchange to get a broadband connection or deemed to expensive to lay cables etc.
So how about using a pidgeon to transfer files?
An IT company in South Africa decided to run a race to see what was quicker in transferring files. The bird was equipped with a memory stick filled with the same amount of data that was to be transferred by ADSL. Both the pidgeon and the data transfer had the same starting and ending point.
A quote from the BBC article...
A Durban IT company pitted an 11-month-old bird armed with a 4GB memory stick against the ADSL service from the country's biggest web firm, Telkom.
Winston the pigeon took two hours to carry the data 60 miles - in the same time the ADSL had sent 4% of the data.
Telkom said it was not responsible for the firm's slow internet speeds.
The idea for the race came when a member of staff at Unlimited IT complained about the speed of data transmission on ADSL.
He said it would be faster by carrier pigeon.
"We renown ourselves on being innovative, so we decided to test that statement," Unlimited's Kevin Rolfe told the Beeld newspaper.
More information from the official race website, Pigdeon Race 2009
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My name is Bob Toovey, a UK expat living in south west France. I have worked in IT for over 20 years. I hope to give you helpful advice about using your computer and more whether you run a business or just enjoying expat life.
