New minimum speed for US broadband connections

Tue Jun 1 21:02:10 UTC 2021

Same here. It is so annoying.

ME: How are you testing the speed?
Them: I am running the speedtest via my Apple Mac SE via an Ethernet AUI
controller and i'm only getting 500kbps!

The joys of running an ISP and dealing with the public....

-Mike

On Tue, Jun 1, 2021 at 1:45 PM <aaron1 at gvtc.com> wrote:

> Yes, my customers “cry” about the speedtest.net result…. All day…
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> *From:* NANOG <nanog-bounces+aaron1=gvtc.com at nanog.org> *On Behalf Of *Mike
> Hammett
> *Sent:* Tuesday, June 1, 2021 12:50 PM
> *To:* Lady Benjamin Cannon of Glencoe <lb at 6by7.net>
> *Cc:* NANOG Operators' Group <nanog at nanog.org>
> *Subject:* Re: New minimum speed for US broadband connections
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> What did they cry about?
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> The speedtest.net result?
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> Loading google.com in a fraction of a second?
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> or was it that you didn't have 75 ms of garbage in the way?
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> That you didn't go through a congested port between the PC and the
> destination?
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> That you were hard wired instead of single-chain 802.11n WiFi going
> through 5 walls?
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> That you were using a local recursive resolver DNS server?
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> -----
> Mike Hammett
> Intelligent Computing Solutions
> http://www.ics-il.com
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> Midwest-IX
> http://www.midwest-ix.com
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> *From: *"Lady Benjamin Cannon of Glencoe" <lb at 6by7.net>
> *To: *"Mike Hammett" <nanog at ics-il.net>
> *Cc: *"Christopher Morrow" <morrowc.lists at gmail.com>, "NANOG Operators'
> Group" <nanog at nanog.org>
> *Sent: *Tuesday, June 1, 2021 12:40:15 PM
> *Subject: *Re: New minimum speed for US broadband connections
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> I’ve had people cry about how fast the internet is at my office…
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> I guess your mileage may vary, but yes humans do notice those kinds of
> delays and they are cumulative.  (It’s not just bandwidth, it’s latency.
> The 3ms ping in my signature is real too.)
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> -LB
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> Ms. Lady Benjamin PD Cannon of Glencoe, ASCE
> 6x7 Networks & 6x7 Telecom, LLC
> CEO
> ben at 6by7.net
> "The only fully end-to-end encrypted global telecommunications company
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