A Durban IT company pitted an 11-month-old bird armed with a 4GB memory stick against the ADSL service from the country’s biggest web firm, Telkom.

Winston the pigeon took two hours to carry the data 60 miles – in the same time the ADSL had sent 4% of the data. BBC.

If you haven’t twigged the test was carried out in South Africa – still as a colleague said it’s somehow a nice idea that the next time a customer complains he’s not received his files we send a pigeon instead.