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History Report
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None 2018-01-13 Meeting

THANK YOU FOR By Les Larkin
LesLarkin@AIM.com
VISITING Our January meeting was conducted by
Phil Bock.
Chynna Rose (Presenter)

The door prize was won by Stephanie
Risinger. She won a selfie stick. She said
(Continued from page 4) she will probably give it to her grand-
room farthest from where the router is locat- daughter, who will give it LOTS of use!
ed. My ISP is Charter Spectrum and highest
download speed should be around 60Mbps.
David Carlson won the 50/50 raffle, he and
Since slow speeds have happened before, I the club each receiving $10.00.
decided to take the time to see if there was
anything I could do to improve the speed on Congratulations to all prize winners!
the desktop computer. Running an Ethernet
cable is an option but I was looking for solu- Thanks to Linda Busch for making the cof-
tion that would work for multiple devices, fee, and to Liz Barnett and Linda Busch
e.g., tablets, laptop computers, etc. for providing munchables for us.

Using my laptop computer, I ran a speed This month's program was "Telecom
test in several locations within the house. Choices", presented by Chynna
The speed test on the laptop computer in
the same room as the Netgear R7000 rout- Rose. This was an EXCELLENT presen-
er showed 60Mbps download speed. About tation, covering facets of telecom that I
10 feet from router I was getting 30Mbps. At barely knew existed!
20 feet from router it was 15Mbps but at the
farthest distance (within the house) from the Another great meeting, and I hope to see
router it was 5Mbps. Speed tests normally you at our February 10 meeting.
fluctuate so I thought it was a good idea to
run tests on different days and at different
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