Comments on: Pigeon Race 2009: Will A Homing Pigeon Beat The Telco Giant?

By: prawn1

prawn1 — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 09:56:35 +0000

Update: Telkom says they are not to blame for the company's slow ADSL speed.

Several recommendations have, in the past, been made to the customer but none of these have, to date, been accepted. It must also be noted that Telkom is not the customer's core service provider

From IOL. Update 2: Telkom's official statement is here. They say they're not to blame as the customer has an up-to 512kbps service, but as you mentioned easy, even at the full rate, ADSL would still have come second.

By: prawn1

prawn1 — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 10:32:19 +0000

Lol. Telkom have declined to comment.

Birdband is going to take off in a big way.

By: easy

easy — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 10:08:32 +0000

the sad thing is that if telkom could make their 4mb line run at 100% max speed, Winston would still have won by roughly 3 minutes.

By: prawn1

prawn1 — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 09:43:33 +0000

Pigeonrace2009 reports that Winston has arrived safely. The ADSL transfer is lagging behind. Update: Winston's winning time is 2 hrs 6 minutes 57 seconds.

By: prawn1

prawn1 — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 14:31:56 +0000

+1. With 604 fans on Facebook, Winston is certainly not lacking in support.

By: easy

easy — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 14:23:16 +0000

i was reading about this earlier today, classic!

as always, i’m going to go with the bird…