Internet Slower Than Rat, Horse, Rabbit, and Dog 6
An anonymous reader writes "CNET demonstrates that the internet is actually slower than every major animal. It's even slower than the apocryphal tortoise over a mile. In order to prove this they 'pitted the world's top animals against the Web over a one-mile course, transferring 32GB of data.' The results of the experiment showed the Internet to be the worst way to transfer data over short distances. 'If you put 32GB of data on a bite-proof USB key and strapped it to a cheetah, for example, it would be available to read at the destination 11 times faster than the Internet. The cheetah takes 30.9 minutes, the Internet over 6 hours!' Pigeon, horse and dog also perform very well at transferring 32GB of data, and even the lowly rat is over 8 times faster than the internet. CNET suggests the internet 'should hang its head in shame over its ranking in the one-mile speed test.'" Since it's already been proven that a pigeon was faster, I guess it was time to quantify mammals.
RFC 1149 (Score:2)
RFC 1149 wins again.
Tho you are really better off using RFC 2549 instead.
Lame (Score:2)
What does 'over the internet' mean? 1200 baud? OC 768?
Math fail (Score:2)
over a one-mile course [...] The cheetah takes 30.9 minutes
God damn - that's gotta be the slowest cheetah I've ever heard. Isn't the "four minute mile" a target for the average sprinter? And the cheetah is more than 7 times slower than that?!?!?
Prior art (Score:2)
"Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway." - Andrew S. Tanenbaum