Pigeon-Empowered Wireless Internet

Posted: April 28th, 2005 | 11 Comments »

Nice story: some folks conducted a test to compares ADSL and Pigeon Enabled Internet, the pigeon enabled internet seemed to be faster.

A group of several dozen Internet addicts from Israel and abroad, gathered in the large grass field of the OHALO Center near the Sea of Galilee. The purpose of the gathering was to try and improve Wi-Fly – pigeon-empowered wireless internet and to confront this technology against ADSL. The participants sent 3 homing pigeons to 100 km distance, each carrying 20-22 tiny memory cards containing 1.3 GB, amounting in total of 4 GB of data. (…) “Improving the method was achieved by changing the medium on which the message is stored and carried by the pigeons, from paper (as required by the original protocol) to Memory Flash Cards” , said Ben Bassat. Replacing the old analog content transfer by digital one, enables the pigeons to transfer data faster than ADSL, and to achieve what apparently looks as pigeons’ record in data transfer to a given distance.

11 Comments on “Pigeon-Empowered Wireless Internet”

  1. 1 Isaac Schrödinger said at 10:32 pm on April 28th, 2005:

    Improvement on Paper
    Q. How fast can a pigeon transfer data? A. Well, the fastest rate seems to be approximately 160 KB/s. Q.

  2. 2 å è½ï¼Œé£žç¿” said at 4:02 am on April 29th, 2005:

    家鸽网络 比 ADSL更快
    pasta and vinegar � Pigeon-Empowered Wireless Internet…

  3. 3 Digital Think Tank said at 4:48 pm on April 29th, 2005:

    ADSL Follies
    It’s official: pidgeons are faster than ADSL!! A group of users in Israel tested their Wi-Fly network, i.e. pidgeon-powered wireless internet, and found it to be faster than the ADSL infrastructure. Go pidgeons!
    Pidgeon-Empowered wireless internet

  4. 4 My Rant Site %!#@& said at 5:24 pm on April 29th, 2005:

    Pigeons beat ADSL
    Pigeon-Empowered Wireless Internet…

  5. 5 My Rant Site %!#@& said at 5:24 pm on April 29th, 2005:

    Pigeons beat ADSL
    Pigeon-Empowered Wireless Internet…

  6. 6 NQR: Quickies said at 7:43 pm on April 29th, 2005:

    Pigeons Have Higher Bandwidth Than ADSL
    Pigeons Have Higher Bandwidth Than ADSL

  7. 7 MAC CLUB 06 said at 2:55 am on April 30th, 2005:

    Jetez votre FreeBox et achetez vite fait un pigeon !
    Un groupe d’originaux s’est livré à une expérience qui ne l’est pas moins, originale : vérifier qui est le plus rapide, de l’ADSL et du pigeon voyageur.
    Ils ont effectué leurs tests près de la mer de Gallilée (Israel) avec un groupe de …

  8. 8 NQR: Quickies said at 4:23 pm on May 2nd, 2005:

    Pigeons Have Higher Bandwidth Than ADSL
    Pigeons Have Higher Bandwidth Than ADSL

  9. 9 MyBlog said at 12:46 am on May 5th, 2005:

    Motoman livre vos e-mail
    Faute de pigeons, on utilise des motards pour envoyer des e-mails.

  10. 10 we make money not art said at 7:40 am on June 28th, 2006:

    Pigeon lights, Printball and a spinning computer

    Had a great time last week in Amsterdam (always have when i’m there). I spent some time in the basement of the Post CS building checking the 10.000 euros show, curated by Constant Dullaart, at the W139 gallery. Several very…

  11. 11 Pigeon-technologies - Laboratoire des Villes invisibles said at 6:18 pm on May 9th, 2010:

    [...] aussi se révéler encore très rapides come lr montre ce projet de hackers israeliens de “WiF-Fly: pigeon-empowered internet“. Il s’agissait de comparer la transmission de données via pigeon (3 pigeons voyageant [...]