Re: Comcom/Samknows broadband testing from a different perspective

Peter Lambrechtsen <[email protected]> Thu, 27 Sep 2018 16:37:47 +1200
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There is a Geekzone thread that I kicked off when I attended the Commerce
Commission presentation about Samknows and got to meet Sam.

https://www.geekzone.co.nz/forums.asp?forumid=49&topicid=237852

I've done a bit of analysis on the traffic but haven't dug too deep yet as
I didn't want to bust open the box and try and reverse engineer their
OpenWRT build.

Happy to put anyone in touch with the guys I have dealt with directly from
the Comcom and Samknows too.

On Thu, Sep 27, 2018 at 12:59 PM Brian Cole <brian.cole-r/[email protected]>
wrote:

> Acknowledged with thanks,
>
> Brian
>
> On Thu, 27 Sep 2018 at 12:58 PM, Nathan Ward <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi Brian,
>>
>> You should call their support if you think there’s something going on
>> that’s impacting your connection.
>>
>> They will detect if your connection is in use and doing more than (I
>> think) 64kbit/s in the last 30s or something, and won’t run the tests.
>>
>> They have some clever stuff to detect if your wifi is in use, without
>> being connected to your network and without being your AP. Perhaps that’s
>> playing up?
>>
>> Pretty sure it’s publicly documented, check out the links in that
>> original post and if not we can dig up some other stuff I’m sure.
>>
>> On 27/09/2018, at 11:38 AM, Brian Cole <brian.cole-r/[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Longtime listener; first time caller.
>>
>> I signed up to SamKnows (partly out of curiosity and partly so I can have
>> hard data about my connection that I pay for) at home.
>>
>> Over the last week my connection has gone from slightly adequate with the
>> occasional drop out to a slow connection with regular drop outs.
>>
>> Netflix and YouTube are stuttering, video games drop connection, and
>> websites hang at random times.
>>
>> I can't help but think that the email shared by Dylan sheds some light on
>> why that maybe.
>>
>> This programme won't be terribly successful if everyone gets sick of
>> having a terrible connection during peak hours and shuts the white box
>> down.
>>
>> Pretty frustrating.
>>
>> Brian
>>
>>
>>
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