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)
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"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
That's a terrible ping 😂
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.
I bet he had ADSL
50 MBit/s VDSL.
Is it a German reaction to think: Hey, 50MBit is not that bad?
So Alfred Hitchcock predicted DDOS attacks decades before they were a thing?
I.....
Some guys actually managed to do a ping using this standard. I saw pictures and all.
"an example of packet loss" 🤣
Ahh, the good old RFCs dated April, 1st. This one is number 1149 ( A Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams on Avian Carriers), and got later updated in RFC 2549 (IP over Avian Carriers with Quality of Service).
You need to set a pretty damn high timeout time for this to work.
That said, the bandwidth of strapping microSD cards to carrier pigeons is actually pretty high.
My neighbor bought a bird feeder, how do I defend against MitM?
Buy better seed and a bird bath.
Buy more birds to DDoS his bird feeder