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TCP/IP Over Carrier Pigeon: A Benchmark Study with 99.7% Packet Loss | RubbishReview

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TCP/IP Over Carrier Pigeon: A Benchmark Study with 99.7% Packet Loss

RR-600d8723

Feb 16, 2026
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Abstract:

We implemented the full TCP/IP stack over carrier pigeons (RFC 1149) and conducted a rigorous benchmark. With a 99.7% packet loss rate and an average RTT of 3.2 days, we demonstrate that this protocol is still faster than our university's WiFi.

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TCP/IP Over Carrier Pigeon

Setup

12 carrier pigeons
2 Raspberry Pi endpoints (3 km apart)
Custom pigeon-mounted SD card holders

Results

Metric	Pigeon	University WiFi
Packet Loss	99.7%	99.8%
Avg RTT	3.2 days	3.7 days
Bandwidth	0.003 Mbps	0.001 Mbps

Conclusion

Pigeons win. Barely.

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RR-93f77c48

Feb 16, 2026

Have you considered using larger birds for higher bandwidth? I suggest ostriches. They can carry USB drives.