Which is faster: a horse or the Internet?
The spread of the Internet has made it possible to send data all over the world, but communication speeds vary depending on the region and type of contracted line. German photographer Klaus Peterkapesto, who was concerned about the slowness of his home internet connection, conducted an experiment to see whether the Internet or horses could transport data faster.
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Peter Capest's home uses an analog line to connect to the Internet, and he is dissatisfied with the slow communication speed.
In order to show how slow the line speed at home is, Peter Capest sent about 4.5 GB of photo data to a printing shop about 10 km away from his home over the Internet...
At about the same time, a DVD containing the same data was handed over to a messenger on horseback to be delivered to the print shop.
As a result, the horse arrived at the print shop in about an hour and the data was successfully transferred.
On the other hand, by the time the horse arrived at the print shop, the file transfer over the Internet was still only 61% complete. After that, even after the horse returned to the stable, the file transfer continued. The above results show that when sending approximately 4.5 GB of data to a point 10 km away from Peter Capest's home, horses are faster than the Internet.
The above results were obtained using a slow analog line, but it is also possible to transfer over 1 petabyteof raw data such as photographs of black holes across national borders by using aircraft instead of the Internet. there is. However, the communication speed of the Internet is improving year by year, and in 2020, a communication speed of 44.2Tbps was recorded in Australia, and in 2021, Japan succeeded in achieving a world record optical fiber communication of 319Tbps. It seems that we can expect that in the near future it will be possible to quickly transmit all kinds of data to all over the world.
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