Silly nerds... these guys took a few memory cards containing 4 gigabytes worth of data, strapped them to homing pigeons who flew 100km away, and then compared the data transfer rate to that of ADSL (the pigeons were faster). Full pigeon write-up here.

"On Friday, March 12, 2004, a group of several dozen Internet addicts from Israel and abroad, gathered in the large grass yard of the OHALO Center near the Sea of Galilee. The purpose of the gathering was to witness a live test sending 3 homing pigeons to 100 km distance (see a map), each carrying tiny memory cards containing, in total, 4 GB of data."

Perhaps the next step for these nerds should be to ship a crate full of hard drives via FedEx overnight delivery? Surely that would exceed the data transfer rate of a few pigeons.