I’m switching from RoadRunner to pigeon
…but it’s going to be slower than his current modem and there might be a lot of packet loss due to Hawks
Wrong. A 4GB Flash disk can easily be attached to a pigeon’s leg. If round trip time is even 30 min (1800 sec) between his home and the collection point, and only one pigeon is in flight at the time, you get 4GB = 32Gb =~ 32,000,000,000b. 32,000,000,000 bits / 1500 s = 17,777,777 bits / sec = 17 MBps. This is faster than FIOS!
Latency may be a problem as would be packet loss.
-b.
