Morning Discussion

So a Comcast technician was here trying to fix my slow Internet.

At one point he asks if I was using speedtest.net to test the speed (because he saw I had it open.) He told me that it was inaccurate for testing their network and proceeded to browse to speakeasy's speed test.

This amused me for two reasons: One, the irony of using a competing ISP's tool to test your bandwidth is not lost on me. But the much more amusing thing was seeing that "Ookla" logo in the corner of Speakeasy's tool, which is of course the name of the company that does speedtest.net. It's literally the same test, just reskinned (correct me if I am wrong, haiku.) I pointed this out to him and he didn't really say anything.

It was sad because I really liked the guy at first impression, like when I told him what the guy on the phone said and he said "the phone goes don't know anything; they just read off of a screen." But then later he had to go and be all stupid by telling me that my speed loss could be caused by the fact that my wiring setup is Computer->Gigabit Switch->Gigabit Router, because you lose speed at each uplink.

In the end though he did fix the problem (from ~2 mbits to clearly hitting my cap of 20mbits) and I tipped him an Atari 2600.