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CTOnews.com, Aug. 30 (Xinhua)-- tech blogger Jeff Jearlean recently posted an interesting experimental video on YouTube comparing the speed at which pigeons carry microSD cards and the Internet transmits data. He found that the data transmission speed of pigeons is much faster than that of the Internet within a certain distance.

The experiment was inspired by the practice of a South African company in 2009. At the time, the company compared a 4-GB memory stick carried by a pigeon with the Internet to prove how slow the ADSL service of local telecom company Telkom was. The results showed that pigeons completed 60 miles of flight and data transmission in two hours and eight minutes, while the Internet transmitted only 4% of the data.

Jearlean repeated the experiment in 2023, but he used higher-density data storage devices. He tied three 1TB SanDisk Extreme PRO flash drives (each weighing 5 grams) to the pigeon and made it fly for a mile. It only took the pigeon about a minute to reach its destination. He drew a benchmark chart of 3TB data transfer based on the time of flight and the read and write speed of the flash drive. He found that pigeons were faster than the Internet at distances of less than 600 miles (CTOnews.com Note: about 965.61 kilometers). Over 600 miles, the Internet is faster.

To make the experiment more interesting, Jearlean put on a pigeon mask and flew 3TB files from the United States to data centers in Canada to compare them with Internet transmission speeds. He found that planes would overtake the Internet at a distance of about 5000 miles (about 8046.72 kilometers), but beyond that distance the Internet would have an advantage.

Jearlean said in the video that he could have used a higher-capacity hard drive to improve the plane's transmission speed, but to be fair, he chose the same amount of 3TB data as the pigeon. He also pointed out that his gigabit fiber did not reach the ideal speed and could only maintain a maximum transmission speed of 75 MB/s. He hopes that within the next decade, we will all have broadband at Petabit speed, so that pigeons no longer have to undertake the task of data transmission for us.

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