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    Tauben mit USB-Sticks sind schneller als die durchschnittliche Internetgeschwindigkeit in Belgien

    Tauben mit USB-Sticks sind schneller als die durchschnittliche Internetgeschwindigkeit in Belgien

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    Von TurtleBaron

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    24 Comments

    2. Isotheis on

      But wait, it also takes some time to upload to the USB stick. Did you consider that?

    5. LifeIsAnAdventure4 on

      This is dumb. Residential users typically do not upload large amounts of data at a time. Another relevant measure of Internet speed is the package round trip time which gives you a rough idea of the responsiveness of networked applications.

      Sure, a pigeon can maybe go faster to upload 50 GB but it takes it the same time to upload 20 bytes and it needs another 50 minutes to come back and let you know it has succeeded in its mission (however it does that 😂)

    6. MuskularChicken on

      Romania having the best internet in EastEu. At least we got this working for us.

    7. Simonsifon on

      If i would do it that way, its gonna be hopeless.
      I would pick out a pigeon thinking its a good one, but im sure im gonna pick the stupid one that flies the wrong way and probaply gets attacked by someones cat.
      And whats the cat gonna do with my USB stick full of porn? Chewing on it, thinking its a toy…

      Nah, i will do it the old fashion way and send over tru internet…

    8. Boubyyyyy on

      Pigeons with USB’s? Is that how they transfer little letters?

    10. Kjoep on

      This is about bandwidth, not latency.
      It’s not specific to Belgium, pigeons will beat anything providing the usb stick is large enough

    11. ProfessionalDrop9760 on

      bring post pidgeons back, great for het millieu i guees

    12. Fleugs on

      In an alternative reading, pigeons in Scandinavia, France, Romania and Iberia are just very slow.

      It makes a lot of sense pigeons here are faster, we literally engineered them to race.

    13. PuzzleheadedTrack420 on

      We worden hier dus voor niks constant gebombardeerd door Telenet en Proximus met hun Fiber kabel reclame…Catchy liedje wel.

    14. SaperFellowCakeUnit_ on

      That’s also why there is so many pigeons in Belgium.

      If you ever wondered.

    16. TomCanBe on

      Back in the days we did offsite backups using physical tapes. There was this saying “Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway”. Still holds true today when talking about considerable amounts of data.

    17. havnar- on

      If you pay Telenet a lot of money, you can have normal download speeds at night!

    18. lordnyrox46 on

      That’s BS.

      From transferring the file from your PC to your USB stick and using a pigeon to cover 50 km, I calculated that it would take 42 minutes. This means that for the pigeon to beat internet speed, it would need to be less than 10 Mbps, which I doubt is the average connection speed in Belgium. In fact, I know for a fact that it’s false, since according to Ookla’s median, the median speed is 80 Mbps for every speed test conducted in Belgium. Other sources say it’s around 40 Mbps, so it’s not even close to 10 Mbps.

      (I personally have 1Gbps)

      Edit: found this from 2018

      https://www.investinwallonia.be/news-1/news-2/belgium-among-the-top-10-countries-for-internet-speed

    20. steffoon on

      That’s not a fair comparison. It’s not like our Internet is shit, Belgian pigeons are known to win prices. /s

    22. michaelbelgium on

      2 hours and 23 minutes for uploading 25GB ?

      Guess im lucky, it would take around an hour less for me with 40mbit/s upload

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