If you thought your AT&T or Comcast Internet was slow than you will be thankful that you do not live in South Africa. Well, that and all those illegal aliens….
A group of pissed of IT dudes wanted to demonstrate just how slow it was to use the country’s biggest web firm, Telkom. They pitted the Internet against an 11-month old carrier pigeon.
Winston the pigeon took two hours to carry the data 60 miles – in the same time the ADSL had sent 4% of the data.
Telkom said it was not responsible for the firm’s slow internet speeds.
The idea for the race came when a member of staff at Unlimited IT complained about the speed of data transmission on ADSL.
He said it would be faster by carrier pigeon.
“We renown ourselves on being innovative, so we decided to test that statement,” Unlimited’s Kevin Rolfe told the Beeld newspaper.
