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.
>>
>>
>

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