XP has been EOL for 2 years. Surely in 2 years someone created something that won't be patched and hurts the third most popular OS...
Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 10:53 AM, Ryan Ray <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. >> >> >
