Carrier Pigeon Still Beats Broadband in Parts of the UK
Broadband Speed Tests Show Carrier Pigeons Are Still Faster in Rural Areas of the UK
The Broadband Speed Test involved the transfer of a 300MB file from a farmhouse in Yorkshire to the town of Skegness, which is 75 miles away.
In the blue corner, was the computer at the farmhouse, which typically has a connection speed of between 100 to 200 Kbps. In the red corner, a carrier pigeon, carrying a USB flash drive.
The carrier pigeon completed it's journey in 2 hours, whereas after that time the computer was still struggling to transfer the file.
Despite claims by British Telecom that 99% of homes in the UK can now receive Broadband, research conducted by the BBC last year found that there were over three million homes in the UK that still had internet connections of less than 2Mbps.
The government has committed itself to providing this speed as the bare minimum to all homes in the UK by 2015, and meantime British Telecom is undertaking a huge project to replace the outdated telephone cables by fibre optic cables across the country.
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28 Comments
Post a CommentThe hhard thing would be getting the pigeon to use a GPS.
Funny how technology has come a long way, yet you still hear of horrendous stories with communications companies.
This letter to BT today says it all.
Your ebilling website is completely intolerable and, to me, utterly unusable.
Today is the first time in two years I have been able to access it I believe.
Today, your site repeatedly refused to allow me to login. Then it randomly did log in. Previous attempts to login have always been completely fruitless. Then the appearance and order of the itemised amounts altered without warning in some meaningless and random manner.
And the bottom line is that despite spending a very long time pratting about on the website, I have no meaningful comprehension of my current bill whatsoever.
I have had enough of this nonsense.
I also had no idea that by asking to see my account online you were going to fail to send me any paper bills.
I have not had any paper bills for about two years and have been unable to contact you via your silly call centres which never answer and simply repeatedly cut me off after a wait of about ten minutes. Consequently I have n
Good grief!
Send me a pigeon!
Back in the days when I was on dialup, because I sued to work from home I had a 2nd phone line installed for the internet, so that being online didn't stop us receiving phoen calls. Remember those days? I also had a proxy server program running, which kept the dialup connection active. If the connection dropped, it would redial automatically. We have it so easy these days, with wireless networking too.
This is so cool! Great write-up! We're rural, but we have DSL finally. However, we are so far from the router that it is just about as slow as dial-up. However, we don't get disconnected every few minutes with the DSL.
We're lucky, in a rural area with decent Broadband. Have had dozens of emails from Council regarding this survey and testing for the area. They're really taking it seriously. :)
Hilarious! I bet the pigeon would beat my Internet service too.
The US has this same problem as you get into rural areas. Even in some urban areas the only available internet service is dial-up. Great article.