The most unconventional internet speed test.

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  • Опубліковано 11 чер 2024
  • Yep, it really happened.
    This video tells the story of Winston the carrier pigeon, whom achieved something very few pigeons ever have and made history for it.
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  • @Venistro
    @Venistro 9 місяців тому +52

    This is how we test Internet speeds in Germany today. Only, unfortunately, the pigeon very often wins...

  • @ardnys35
    @ardnys35 9 місяців тому +6

    scientists used a "similar" method to transport data for the black hole image from a few years ago. they had lots of wave data all over the world and all data had to be brought in a place to be analysed and construct the image. they transferred the data by flying them across the globe with planes. i am sure they would use pigeons too if the distance was tad bit smaller.

  • @perz1val
    @perz1val 9 місяців тому +22

    I love this story. Telling people about IPoAC is a good conversation starter too. There's also the saying, "never underestimate a bandwidth of a station wagon full of magnetic tape going on a highway"... or something like that, I don't remember exactly

    • @harrytsang1501
      @harrytsang1501 9 місяців тому +3

      Truck full of hard drives on a highway has the bandwidth between a few terabytes per second and a few petabytes per second, depending on how far you go

    • @kingofgamesyamiyami6269
      @kingofgamesyamiyami6269 9 місяців тому +1

      Let's put some numbers on this!
      Western Digital has 22 TB drives available, each weighing under 700 grams. An 18 wheeler can carry approximately 20 metric tons of cargo. So about 28,000 hard drives.
      That's 600 petabytes of data.
      Assume the truck travels for 1 hour to it's destination. That gives us approximately 160 Terabytes per second.

  • @Rattlehead15
    @Rattlehead15 9 місяців тому +13

    Just yesterday one of my friends was trying to download Baldur's Gate 3 but his download was going really slow, so we just moved the files to a hard drive and drove to his house instead! We wanted to prove Tanenbaum's quote about a wagon full of hard drives right lol

    • @caramelapple5562
      @caramelapple5562 9 місяців тому

      how did you get the files on a hard drive? have someone with faster internet download it?

  • @Thect
    @Thect 9 місяців тому +18

    This is why we should have carrier pigeons in every house and business, just in case the internet is down and we need to use IPoAC to communicate

    • @dreamsofcode
      @dreamsofcode  9 місяців тому +5

      Chess might be the only viable online game in that case

  • @ripple123
    @ripple123 9 місяців тому +6

    not surprised. here in south africa, we have powercuts which can last anywhere from 2-10 hours a day

  • @FritsStegmann
    @FritsStegmann 9 місяців тому +7

    Software dev from South africa. If my memory serves me correctly the pigeon race was a marketing stunt to demonstrate how bad Telkom was as ISP. Which at the time was pretty bad compared to the rest of the world.

  • @jessejayphotography
    @jessejayphotography 9 місяців тому +11

    With the amount of data density increases, and if you don’t take into account loading the data on the card, won’t the pigeon almost always win? You can get mini-SD with 2TB of data.

    • @dreamsofcode
      @dreamsofcode  9 місяців тому +6

      You're correct. Certainly over shorter distances, which is an interesting phenomenon.

  • @soulergy1soulrgy1
    @soulergy1soulrgy1 4 місяці тому +1

    Sending data by pigeon works unless it's send by a stool pigeon!

  • @Domze_
    @Domze_ 9 місяців тому +19

    I have no clue how humans are able to command a pigeon to "deliver this message to Rome," and then the pigeon just casually flies there.

    • @JokNavi
      @JokNavi 9 місяців тому +5

      The pidgeon's mate lives in rome. and they are able to find eachother from literally across the world.

    • @caramelapple5562
      @caramelapple5562 9 місяців тому +10

      i believe the pigeon is raised in rome, manually brought somewhere else, and then when it's released it automatically flies back to its nest

  • @tomiis4
    @tomiis4 9 місяців тому +4

    I'm not sure, but wasn't first story about workers in company who complained about slow internet?

  • @bennesp
    @bennesp 9 місяців тому +3

    How is it possible that in less than 24 hours I have the same video under two different points of view by you and Jeff Geerling? Why are pigeons a so hot topics right now? Just curious

    • @dreamsofcode
      @dreamsofcode  9 місяців тому +2

      A complete coincidence! Someone else also mentioned it.

    • @bennesp
      @bennesp 9 місяців тому

      @@dreamsofcode I guess then that you were more astonished than me 😅😅 great video!

  • @codeman99-dev
    @codeman99-dev 7 днів тому

    8:19 Oh my goodness. From now on I'm telling everyone that "the cloud" is named as such because of IPoAC!

  • @floriankapfenberger
    @floriankapfenberger 9 місяців тому +1

    Jeff Geerling just uploaded a video about the same topic. What a coincidence 😅

    • @dreamsofcode
      @dreamsofcode  9 місяців тому

      Yeah that is kinda spooky lol. I wonder if we were both inspired by the same source.

  • @shayes.x
    @shayes.x 9 місяців тому +2

    You're telling me RFC 1149 has some merit?

    • @dreamsofcode
      @dreamsofcode  9 місяців тому +4

      It definitely has an implementation haha

  • @FKNNXTLVL
    @FKNNXTLVL 9 місяців тому +1

    I live in the city and have up to 30/3Mbit's for 35€ **try not to cry**

    • @CottidaeSEA
      @CottidaeSEA 9 місяців тому

      I pay less, got 1Gbit/s on a good day and 500Mbit/s on a bad day. 5G internet. My previous had something similar to yours (a bit slower) for the same cost as the current though.
      I'm still not a huge fan of mobile internet though, because I could move the router a bit and my speed would get dropkicked down to unusable.

  • @maxdarner5672
    @maxdarner5672 8 місяців тому

    1tb sd = gigabit IPoAC

  • @victortesla2935
    @victortesla2935 9 місяців тому

    More nvchad video
    Example: nvchad for Java for Javascript
    GitHub in nvchad
    Etc

    • @dreamsofcode
      @dreamsofcode  9 місяців тому +1

      I've got a schedule for NVChad videos which is about once a month at the moment. Although, the Null-ls news has delayed this one. Next one is Node.js as per the channel member selection.