ESP8266 Tutorial problems.

jd2117:
It looks to me - the uninitiated - as if the device is sending a copy of the memory contents to the monitor instead of the intended output. I have passed this info to the producers of the tutorial but had no answer.

It is how it should be. The poitns show the progress. You have a little longer sync time (more "receiving 2 bytes of data") but it is not unusual.