SamKnows Broadband

London - 2008 Sam Crawford, a young software developer noticed that his Internet connection speed seemed to slow down considerably in the evenings.

Web based speed tests seemed to show that everything was okay, but Sam was sure that this couldn't be right. He tried developing his own tests which he installed on an old PC in front of his Internet connection. Still nothing seemed to be wrong.

He realised that he was ignoring all of his wireless traffic, and the only way truly measure his Internet connection was by installing his tests on the actual router.

With no other choice, Sam set about building his own router with his tests embedded. This 'magic box' worked and he was able to build a report card on the performance of his Internet connection, which he sent to his ISP.

Eager to spread the word Sam posted a research paper detailing his solution online and was inundated by requests from other consumers who also wanted to accurately measure the performance of their broadband.

Only two years later, SamKnows has expanded from Sam's bedroom into an international corporation and Sam's original recipe with the latest generation of those same tests have now been adopted as the worldwide industry standard by the American and UK regulators and form the basis of government reports.

As the Internet industry now recognises, SamKnows!

San Jose - 2010Faced with the need to produce industrial quantities of magic boxes for a variety of ISPs and government clients, SamKnows developed a technology which can convert any manufacturer's router, gateway or Internet devise into one of Sam's magic boxes. This 'secret sauce' is still based around Sam's original recipe of tests, although Sam—and now his team of professional programmers—have made numerous improvements to his original 'bedroom version'.

The first router manufacturer to launch a SamKnows enabled device is Netgear. Sam and his team are currently working with other devise manufacturers worldwide to make the tests available to every consumer.