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IP over Avian Carriers with Quality of Service (1999)

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jonathanlydall 1 hour ago
In 2009 when South African IT communication was essentially only permitted through a single entity, as a publicity stunt a small ISP did an implementation of this:

https://pigeonrace2009.co.za/

As I recall at the time, the best consumer speeds available were 512kbps with a 3GB per month cap at today’s cost of about 45USD.

The worst part (especially as a WoW player) is that QoS was applied giving priority to ports 80, 443, 110 and 25. This resulted in all other ports having terrible latency, probably added 150ms on top of the unavoidable (due to speed of light) 190ms to get to European servers.

Fortunately today the situation is much better, there are numerous FNO companies and even more numerous ISPs for each.

I pay about 45 USD for an uncapped 100Mbps connection.

breppp 1 hour ago
Reminds me of that AWS hard drive truck thing where your data is sent with quite the latency
esafak just now
Echoing Andrew Tanenbaum's famous quip, Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway.
dredmorbius 1 hour ago
Alas, Snowmobile has been retired:

<https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/17/amazon_snowmobile_del...> (2024).

iso1631 3 hours ago
> Carriers in the queue too long may leave log entries

> Avian Carriers MAY eat the NATs.

There's always something I've not spotted / forgotten before with these

71bw 2 hours ago
> One major benefit to using Avian Carriers is that this is the only networking technology that earns frequent flyer miles, plus the Concorde and First classes of service earn 50% bonus miles per packet.

:D

block_dagger 2 hours ago
Bird Internet?
dredmorbius 1 hour ago
Bird Internets aren't real.
nurettin 1 hour ago
Horse heads have also been used historically to send messages of a certain nature.
dredmorbius 1 hour ago
With guaranteed receipt. Or at least, they cannot be refused.
theginger 3 hours ago
Disappointed there still isn't a protocol for sending messages in a bottle.
tosti 2 hours ago
There ain't an RFC for morse code, either.
mananaysiempre just now
Naturally. That’s an ITU-R recommendation[1].

[1] https://www.itu.int/rec/R-REC-M.1677-1-200910-I

mapt 3 hours ago
Send a raven to Pyongyang.
mghackerlady 1 hour ago
or you can just like, email them. Their overseas news agencies have email addresses