Gone are the days of dial-up modem Internet, where a phone call could cause the connection to ‘drop’, and browsing speeds have been increasing year on year, but in some cases, especially in more isolated rural areas, it is still inadequate and the technology can even be outdated. …through the bathroom.
This is what the data analyzed by the Washington Post reveals regarding Internet speeds in various locations in the United States of America.
Depending on data volume and distances, pigeons are the fastest option in more isolated and rural areas, where internet speeds are well below the national average.
For example, in Dallas, Texas, the average upload speed is less than 10 megabits per second (Mbps), so sending 2,000 photos or 1 hour of video to another location up to 100 miles away is faster if using Pigeon.
In another case analyzed, in Washington, D.C., where the average upload speed is 25 Mbps, for sending 35 episodes of Sesame Street (34 GB in total), over a distance of up to 160 km, the speed of pigeons also outperforms that technology.
The North American Journal points out that in some rural communities, average upload speeds don’t exceed 1 Mbps, so in these cases, even sending a video in the same city would be faster if you put a flash drive in a dove and sent it to its final destination.
This year, YouTuber Jeff Girling attached a series of pen drives totaling 3TB to a dove, eventually beating ultra-fast gigabit fiber internet in speed.
Passenger pigeons reach speeds of approximately 65 km/h, on average, and with favorable winds there are records of these birds reaching speeds of up to 170 km/m, covering paths of up to 1,600 km.
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