Broadband performance, availability and speed Broadband performance, availability and speed

Broadband

performance, availability and speed.

Test My Internet
Get your own broadband report card

Get your own broadband report card Get your own broadband report card

Each month SamKnows will email you a monthly report card detailing the performance of your broadband. We'll also include some analysis to help you work out whether there are any issues with your line.

You'll be able to forward this to your ISP to help them diagnose problems more quickly.

Network and Application Testing

The demands of today’s critical network applications, from high availability messaging to full multimedia video conferencing, require a special kind of performance testing.

SamKnows is the recognised leader in this kind of application testing which it routinely undertakes for the leading industry service providers.

Secret Sauce Inside

We have developed a package of bespoke tests and protocols alongside a reporting framework which can be added into all popular home and enterprise routers. Despite its power, this ‘secret sauce’ has a very small memory and processing power footprint, so our tests will fully run on even the lowest specification device.

Test Nodes

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SamKnows Partnerships

WNR3500

SAN JOSE, Calif. — June 1, 2010 — NETGEAR®, Inc. a worldwide provider of technologically innovative, branded networking solutions, today announced that Netgear will be embedding the SamKnows secret sauce into its standard 3500 series routers.

Broadband boost to SFR and Vivendi figures

SFR first half results for 2010 show that it added 238,000 net new active broadband subscribers, increasing its total base to 4.

FCC to tackle Native American digital divide

The FCC has set up an office of Native Affairs and Policy to “develop and advance an agenda aimed at bringing the benefits of a modern communications infrastructure to all Native communities”.

TestMyISP figures prompt FCC call for clearer adverts

Figures from the TestMyISP service, set up through SamKnows.com, have led the FCC to reiterate its call for a common standard to measure the speeds American broadband users receive so adverts can be made clearer.

FCC to rollout 10,000 SamKnows White Boxes

June 1, WASHINGTON - The FCC has announced that following a worldwide public tender, it has selected SamKnows to provide broadband measurement services and methodologies for its National Broadband Plan.

Ofcom appoints SamKnows

FEB 14, LONDON - The UK's telecoms and Internet regulator, Ofcom, has announced that, following a worldwide public tender, it will be renewing its contract until 2012 with SamKnows to provide broadband measurement services for the United Kingdom. Data collected by SamKnows will be used to form the basis of a series of government census reports to be published at six-month intervals.