[PLUG-TALK] Broadband in Portland, IPoAC?

Keith Lofstrom keithl at kl-ic.com
Mon Sep 12 03:52:07 UTC 2011


This is old news, but:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/09/17/bt_bird/

In rural England, a carrier pigeon with a micro-SD card attached
moved a 5 minute video 75 miles in one hour - a digital upload
over British Telecom was still grinding away 3 hours later.

And don't forget IPoAC: 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_over_Avian_Carriers

  ping -c 9 -i 900 10.0.3.1
  PING 10.0.3.1 (10.0.3.1): 56 data bytes
  64 bytes from 10.0.3.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=6165731.1 ms
  64 bytes from 10.0.3.1: icmp_seq=4 ttl=255 time=3211900.8 ms
  64 bytes from 10.0.3.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=255 time=5124922.8 ms
  64 bytes from 10.0.3.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=255 time=6388671.9 ms

Note that IPoAC has 56% round trip packet loss - I assume the
pigeons are hitting Windows.  Be sure to put large, menacing
Tux decals on all your outside glass before attempting this.

Those wishing for better broadband in Portland should enlist
the aid of local pigeon fanciers for some publicity stunts. 
My wife's new office downtown will need much better bandwidth. 
We will be doing nightly backups from her office to offsite
servers.  Given the slow speeds and high prices of CenturyLink
business DSL, we may instead use IPoAC backups for "chicken feed".

Keith

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