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Speed test as of last night.. This freaked me out.. Ping (latency) was 2614... That should tell you how things went with the speed test, a higher number in  ping test means really shitty internet.. .20Mbps download (that's point 20Mbps)  and upload was .02Mbps... point zero two..  WOW That would have been fast in the dial up era.. Today, right now.. on the http://www.pingtest.net/  which is part of the speed test second page but every bit as important.. Packet loss, I don't have java activated for what the reason is..  Ping = 39ms Jitter = 7ms giving a rating of "B" on the page.. What this tells us is this is very good internet, not the best A rating but get real, does anyone get A ?...  Speed test from  http://www.speedtest.net/ and the closest server is ALLO server 45 miles away..  Ping =179 which was double figure a few minutes ago yeilding a really nice speed test, what is it with that 179 figure??  4.21Mbps which is shitty but acceptable for the roku.. .24Mbps upload speed is so slow it isn't even funny for those of us who put videos on YouTube it can mean two hours to upload a two minute clip..  Here is Netflix speed settings and what they mean..

• 0.5 Megabits per second - Required broadband connection speed
• 1.5 Megabits per second - Recommended broadband connection speed
• 3.0 Megabits per second - Recommended for SD quality
• 5.0 Megabits per second - Recommended for HD quality
• 25 Megabits per second - Recommended for Ultra HD quality

So what does getting a 5Mbps bump mean speed wise??  Well hopefully it will mean I can see the weather nation radar this Saturday night without troubles.. Our internet was horrible that night and getting anything to move wasn't happening.. 

My setting on the Netflix is the lowest.. And still it buffers, something it never did until last summer.. 

What I watched this weekend.. Seemed like a documentary weekend.. But this one was pretty damn good.. 

21 Days Under The Sky, about these guys who rode their bikes from San Francisco to Brooklyn to be part of a gathering there.. 21 days to ride that far is simple, until you realize their gas tanks could get them only a hundred miles at a time.. There are areas in Utah where it can be two or three hundred miles between buildings let alone gas pumps.. Really interesting movie.. By the way this isn't the trailer, this is the actual movie.. 

I also finished the 80th episode of Nurse Jackie, was that the end??  You watch it and the final episode 

description doesn't read like it is the end of the series.. BUT IT IS.. What a crappy way to end it.. Unless Netflix gets it and ends the series right that will be the way we all remember the ending of this show.. What a crappy ending.. 

   

Also watching the sixties miniseries.. Very interesting..  Cuckoo isn't as good without Adam Sandburg in in it, but then it wasn't that good with him in it either.. The Ranch seems to be a show with all of Kutchers friends in it.. The latest having Jon Cryer he from the last few seasons of two and a half men.. Don't get me wrong Jon is a good actor.. He is also in NCIS as a doctor, a fairly serious part.. Just got through with season one of One Tree Hill.. in which we saw Dan collapse of a heart attack.. Heart attack?? I thought you had to have a heart to have a heart attack.. Guess they will do exploratory surgery, see if they can find it.. Yeah there is some seriously over acting in this.. but..  Sophia Bush.. 'nuff said..  Just started watching Republic of Doyle.. Hopefully we can get the internet to be stable so I can finish this show about the time football season starts.. Speaking of football season.. .. That will be tomorrows entry.. 

Badge Henry