> "Petri Laihonen" <pietu@weblizards.net> writes:
>
>>>> > How much time did it take to load up all the flash cards?
>>>> > How about downloading the data on the other end?
>>>> > Was it included in the equation?
>>>>
>>>> It probably wasn't, but it would be negligible. Load up the flash
>>>> card, attach to pigeon, release, repeat.
>>>
>>> I think he was talking about having to manually insert each flash
>>> card into a reader, mv the data, and then remove it.
>>>
>> Exactly!
>>
>> Additionally the flash cards I have been using are not that fast to
>> transfer data. They have been only 256Mb (I have not tested the Gb level
>> Micro Drives) It could also be due to USB speed limitations.
>>
>> Therefore it might actually take several days to put the data into those
>> flash cards and then read on the other end.
>
> Well that's the "latency" or "delay" of the link, not the bandwidth. ;)
>
And the original comparison was the *bandwidth* of a minivan. :)
P
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