Strap 20 sd card with 1TB capacity each. Send the pidgeon to a neighboring city, 2 hours flight time.
Bandwidth: 2.78 GB/s (assuming no wild hawks in the area)
“Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway.”
When “packet loss” occurs:
This little maneuver is gonna cost us 51 years
You are forgetting the time it takes to copy the data to and from these cards. Data may be transported, but it is not usable until you copy it. Copying 20 TiB is probaply going to take some time
We had a TV report about a photographer who actually transfered big files with via horse because the transfer over the internet was slower than a calm ride. (Germany - 2021) link for Germans
When Baldur’s Gate 3 came out our group of friends wanted to start a game together. Since one of our friends, living about a kilometer away, has shitty internet it was faster for me to download the game myself, copy it to a USB stick, have it driven over by another friend, copy it onto the friends PC and verify file integrity than downloading it.
German internet in a nutshell.
So yeah, IPoAC would’ve it’s purpose.
You are joking. But https://aws.amazon.com/snowmobile/ is real.
It’s a real quote, from the 80s, published in a networking textbook.
It’s amusing, but it’s always been a serious and occasionally practical observation.
“an example of packet loss” 🤣
My neighbor bought a bird feeder, how do I defend against MitM?
Buy better seed and a bird bath.
The irony of wind powered Internet.