What could be wrong with this statement ?
Can this be truth ?
Well, I found a nice benchmark on businessday where they measured the speed of an ancient technology from world war I to deliver 4gb of data against the modern ADSL.
Guess what, that old tech delivered data 95% faster than the TelKom ADSL.
The test was to transfer 4gb of data to a node located at 80km from the starting point. It took 2 hours 6 minutes and 57 seconds for the old tech to transfer data, when the transfer was finished the ADSL upload was only 5% done.
So, the next time you think your connection is slow, try reverting to the old thech, put it on a pen and send it by a pigeon!
Never underestimate the speed of manual data transfer. Even a 1Gb/s company network cannot win against someone taking an external drive and walking the 100m to the other office. (if 100m takes 1.2 minutes, the network will theoretically only have transfered about 9Gb, considering drives can easily be 1Tb nowadays…)
Let alone a train-car with data-tapes. ^_^
Pigeon ranking for the win!