In 2009 when South African IT communication was essentially only permitted through a single entity, as a publicity stunt a small ISP did an implementation of this:
As I recall at the time, the best consumer speeds available were 512kbps with a 3GB per month cap at today’s cost of about 45USD.
The worst part (especially as a WoW player) is that QoS was applied giving priority to ports 80, 443, 110 and 25. This resulted in all other ports having terrible latency, probably added 150ms on top of the unavoidable (due to speed of light) 190ms to get to European servers.
Fortunately today the situation is much better, there are numerous FNO companies and even more numerous ISPs for each.
I pay about 45 USD for an uncapped 100Mbps connection.
Back in the late 90s I delivered a couple of LTO drives and a bunch of tapes to a Customer in my car (not a station wagon, sadly). As I drove I thought "drive faster to decrease the latency!"
(The car was a Geo Metro and my co-workers described it as not much bigger than one of the backup tapes-- one of them likening it to some kind of interchangeable backup module itself.)
> One major benefit to using Avian Carriers is that this is the only networking technology that earns frequent flyer miles, plus the Concorde and First classes of service earn 50% bonus miles per packet.
In 2009 when South African IT communication was essentially only permitted through a single entity, as a publicity stunt a small ISP did an implementation of this:
https://pigeonrace2009.co.za/
As I recall at the time, the best consumer speeds available were 512kbps with a 3GB per month cap at today’s cost of about 45USD.
The worst part (especially as a WoW player) is that QoS was applied giving priority to ports 80, 443, 110 and 25. This resulted in all other ports having terrible latency, probably added 150ms on top of the unavoidable (due to speed of light) 190ms to get to European servers.
Fortunately today the situation is much better, there are numerous FNO companies and even more numerous ISPs for each.
I pay about 45 USD for an uncapped 100Mbps connection.
It's an interesting form of spam how theres a link for an online gambling site just inline in the text.
Bergen Linux User Group doing it: https://blug.linux.no/project/rfc1149/
Reminds me of that AWS hard drive truck thing where your data is sent with quite the latency
Echoing Andrew Tanenbaum's famous quip, Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway.
Back in the late 90s I delivered a couple of LTO drives and a bunch of tapes to a Customer in my car (not a station wagon, sadly). As I drove I thought "drive faster to decrease the latency!"
(The car was a Geo Metro and my co-workers described it as not much bigger than one of the backup tapes-- one of them likening it to some kind of interchangeable backup module itself.)
It’s a great way to demonstrate the difference between bandwidth and latency.
Alas, Snowmobile has been retired:
<https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/17/amazon_snowmobile_del...> (2024).
See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sneakernet
Fun read from simpler times.
> Carriers in the queue too long may leave log entries
> Avian Carriers MAY eat the NATs.
There's always something I've not spotted / forgotten before with these
> One major benefit to using Avian Carriers is that this is the only networking technology that earns frequent flyer miles, plus the Concorde and First classes of service earn 50% bonus miles per packet.
:D
Bird Internet?
Bird Internets aren't real.
Horse heads have also been used historically to send messages of a certain nature.
With guaranteed receipt. Or at least, they cannot be refused.
Disappointed there still isn't a protocol for sending messages in a bottle.
The original IP over avian carriers RFC is literally ideal for sending IP packets in a bottle.
There ain't an RFC for morse code, either.
Naturally. That’s an ITU-R recommendation[1].
[1] https://www.itu.int/rec/R-REC-M.1677-1-200910-I
Send a raven to Pyongyang.
Objective unclear; we sent a writing desk instead thinking, surely Poe could still write on this...
or you can just like, email them. Their overseas news agencies have email addresses