In addition this person seems to be using Windows XP which wouldn't
surprise me if the computer was so old / filled with so much shit that it
would cause issues like this. 15 year old OS still being used it's pretty
scary.


On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 7:22 AM, Ken Hohhof <[email protected]> wrote:

> I got nowhere explaining Chicago-Atlanta is 1400 miles roundtrip and just
> based on speed of light, a 1 ms ping was not possible, so the test results
> were suspect.
>
> Plus he probably doesn’t understand that lower ping time is better.
>
> Life may get interesting when ISPs start publishing their FCC nutrition
> labels.  Some people with nothing better to do will be running speedtests
> all day and filing complaints.  Cheaper than playing the penny slots or
> video poker.
>
>
> *From:* Josh Luthman <[email protected]>
> *Sent:* Wednesday, April 13, 2016 8:51 AM
> *To:* [email protected]
> *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] strange customer speedtest
>
>
> Sir can you try any other Speedtest site besides this one and report back?
>
> Josh Luthman
> Office: 937-552-2340
> Direct: 937-552-2343
> 1100 Wayne St
> Suite 1337
> Troy, OH 45373
> On Apr 13, 2016 9:47 AM, "Ken Hohhof" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Customer sent these to me complaining about his speed.  (don't you love
>> people who take screenshots with their cellphone camera)
>>
>> The 0.10/0.10 speed may be low, but 1 ms latency from Chicago to Atlanta
>> is excellent!  Call the high frequency trading guys.  Oops, the next
>> speedtest shows 2656 ms.  It's also puzzling this speedtest site chooses
>> the Atlanta server rather than the Chicago server.
>>
>> I'm assuming the speedtest just failed and showed bogus numbers rather
>> than an error message.  Try and explain that to a non technical customer
>> who tries to blame all his problems on slow Internet.  This is the guy
>> putting up Ring doorbells all around his property, he's up to 3 of them
>> now.  I don't think he uses the Internet for anything other than watch his
>> Ring doorbells and run speedtests.
>
>

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