I’ve had a slight obession with them recently, is it possible?

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    Carrier pigeons make an excellent bandwidth benchmark though.

    Sneaker networks (flash drives stores in sneakers) are still some of the highest bandwidth out there.

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      To this day, nothing beats a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway.

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        The bandwidth of a station wagon just keeps increasing with advances in storage technology.

        But a 10Gb/s line will do about 100TB in a day, so there’s not that many situations left where you have enough data to make the station wagon worth the effort. Wikipedia has a few examples, with the most recent being a truck doing 100PB for AWS. I think we passed station wagon station 10 years ago.