Davies made a video of his most recent 5
minute haircut, 200 MB of data. On one PC, a farmer in Beverly will
begin uploading the video to youtube. Meanwhile, a carrier pigeon will
set out flying. Davies believes that by the time the pigeon has arrived
in a loft in Wrangle, 84 miles away, the data card has been pulled off
the bird’s leg and inserted into a PC , and the haircut movie is being
viewed, the youtube in Beverly will still be loading.
Similar
experiments have already taken place in South Africa and the Australian
outback – with pigeons beating rural broadband both times.
“For
lots of the UK,” (approximately 1/3) says Mr. Davies, “It’s no
different from the broadband perspective from being in the outback of
Australia.”
Trefor Davies, of UK Internet Service Provider Timico, plans an aerial demonstration of just how bad rural broadband delivery is
in rural England. He’s racing a pigeon, strapped with a data card,
against a PC with typically low-speed bandwidth delivery on a farm in
rural Lincolnshire.
Davies made a video of his most recent 5
minute haircut, 200 MB of data. On one PC, a farmer in Beverly will
begin uploading the video to youtube. Meanwhile, a carrier pigeon will
set out flying. Davies believes that by the time the pigeon has arrived
in a loft in Wrangle, 84 miles away, the data card has been pulled off
the bird’s leg and inserted into a PC , and the haircut movie is being
viewed, the youtube in Beverly will still be loading.
Similar
experiments have already taken place in South Africa and the Australian
outback – with pigeons beating rural broadband both times.
“For
lots of the UK,” (approximately 1/3) says Mr. Davies, “It’s no
different from the broadband perspective from being in the outback of
Australia.”
Trefor Davies, of UK Internet Service Provider Timico, plans an aerial demonstration of just how bad rural broadband delivery is in rural England. He’s racing a pigeon, strapped with a data card, against a PC with typically low-speed bandwidth delivery on a farm in rural Lincolnshire.
Davies made a video of his most recent 5 minute haircut, 200 MB of data. On one PC, a farmer in Beverly will begin uploading the video to youtube. Meanwhile, a carrier pigeon will set out flying. Davies believes that by the time the pigeon has arrived in a loft in Wrangle, 84 miles away, the data card has been pulled off the bird’s leg and inserted into a PC , and the haircut movie is being viewed, the youtube in Beverly will still be loading.
Similar experiments have already taken place in South Africa and the Australian outback – with pigeons beating rural broadband both times.
“For lots of the UK,” (approximately 1/3) says Mr. Davies, “It’s no different from the broadband perspective from being in the outback of Australia.”
