Yes, a Pigeon is Faster for Data Transfer than Gigabit Fiber Internet::A decade ago, a pigeon with a 4 GB memory stick outran an ISP’s ADSL service. A 2023 rematch features a bird with 3 TB of flash drives vs gigabit internet.

  • bob_wiley@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I once signed up for a cloud backup service that would mail out a HDD so the user could backup to that, mail it to them, seed the data on the backup servers, and then let the user start doing incremental backups. FedEx, round trip, was faster than uploading it all over the network.

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      1 year ago

      I can’t remember who (probably all of them) but one of the fang companies offers a service where they’ll send you a truck with a huge backup server in a shipping container to do an on site backup to drive back to their cloud servers (for similar reasons.)