LAB 1 - THE CASE OF THE SLUGGISH DEVICE
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USER REPORT (Marcus, student)
"My show keeps buffering and web pages take a long time to load. It works fine
when I take the laptop downstairs to the kitchen."

DEVICE: Laptop, 8-core CPU, 16 GB RAM, 512 GB SSD
WHEN: Saturday 7:30 p.m., in an upstairs bedroom at the far end of the house.
The router is downstairs in the kitchen, behind two walls and a stairwell.
The bedroom has an Ethernet wall port that is connected to the router.

SYSTEM SNAPSHOT (7:31 p.m.)
  CPU ..................... 18%
  Memory (RAM) ............ 44%
  Storage ................. 302 GB free of 512 GB
  Wi-Fi ................... Connected, HomeNet-5G, signal 1 of 4 bars

NETWORK CHECK (bedroom)
  ping 8.8.8.8 ............. 10 sent, 9 received, 10% loss, average 164 ms
  Speed test ............... 6 Mbps down / 1 Mbps up

OTHER DEVICES ON THE NETWORK (from the router's app)
  Smart TV (living room) ... streaming, about 15 Mbps
  Phone (kitchen) .......... idle
  Internet plan ............ 300 Mbps

NETWORK CHECK (same laptop, in the kitchen 2 m from the router, 5 minutes later)
  ping 8.8.8.8 ............. 10 sent, 10 received, 0% loss, average 16 ms
  Speed test ............... 240 Mbps down / 22 Mbps up