data transfer speeds

Pigeon flies past broadband in data speed race

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11325452
 
 
another case where Nature beat Technology:
A snail - pulling a chariot with DVD wheels - deliverd more info than ASDL
http://improbable.com/airchives/paperair/volume11/v11i4/sluggish-data-11-4.pdf
 

 "Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway."
 Andrew S. Tanenbaum    Computer Networks, 4th Ed. p. 91