{"id":910,"date":"2009-09-10T10:53:55","date_gmt":"2009-09-10T14:53:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=910"},"modified":"2009-09-10T10:53:55","modified_gmt":"2009-09-10T14:53:55","slug":"i-guess-they-can-update-rfc1149-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2009\/09\/10\/i-guess-they-can-update-rfc1149-now\/","title":{"rendered":"I guess they can update RFC1149 now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I guess that <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/africa\/8248056.stm\" target=\"_blank\">this story<\/a> means they&#8217;ll have to update the old <a href=\"http:\/\/www.faqs.org\/rfcs\/rfc1149.html\" target=\"_blank\">RFC 1149: Standard for the transmission of IP datagrams on avia<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>Broadband promised to unite the world with super-fast data delivery &mdash; but in South Africa it seems the web is still no faster than a humble pigeon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A Durban IT company pitted an 11-month-old bird armed with a 4GB memory stick against the ADSL service from the country&#8217;s biggest web firm, Telkom.<\/p>\n<p>Winston the pigeon took two hours to carry the data 60 miles &mdash; in the same time the ADSL had sent 4% of the data.<\/p>\n<p>Telkom said it was not responsible for the firm&#8217;s slow internet speeds. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I guess that this story means they&#8217;ll have to update the old RFC 1149: Standard for the transmission of IP datagrams on avia: Broadband promised to unite the world with super-fast data delivery &mdash; but in South Africa it seems the web is still no faster than a humble pigeon. A Durban IT company pitted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,15],"tags":[253,58,252],"class_list":["post-910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humour","category-technology","tag-birds","tag-internet","tag-southafrica"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-eG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=910"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":911,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910\/revisions\/911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}