Sounds like a winner. DOSed maybe? Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Jan 3, 2016 3:16 PM, "Ken Hohhof" <[email protected]> wrote:
> OK, the words you never want to hear on a tech support call: "My brother > in law is here and he has a PhD in computer science." And Mr. PhD says the > problem is definitely bad Internet service. > > Oh, and he changed a bunch of stuff the customer doesn't understand and > now he's gone back home to Minnesota. > > Anyway, even after having the customer factory default his new TP-Link > Archer C7 AC1750 router, it has a consistent 900-1000 msec ping latency. > Plus it's pingable from the Internet by default, which I find unusual. > > Had the customer fish his old Linksys WRT120N out of the garbage, now with > a busted antenna, and speeds and ping times are fine. > > Hmmmmmmm, I don't have much experience with TP-Link, but this does not > give me a good impression. I assumed the brother in law had done something > weird with QoS or firewall settings, but it was the same after being > defaulted. Customer says it cost like $100 on Amazon and was advertised as > having the performance of routers costing twice as much. > >
