SamKnows Spotlight

Ball Metaverse’s Jerry Heinz reveals what it’s going to take to build a metaverse.

There is SamKnows software inside tens of millions of routers – find out from the man who created it how it’s helping to keep connections running smoothly.

Ever had a gutter clog? Ever heard of a fatberg sewer blockage? These are all (pretty unpleasant) ways that waste can cause obstructions and slow down the standard process. Interestingly enough, data passages can suffer from the same kind of congestion. In this episode, we speak with Sam Crawford to find out more about Bufferbloat and how SamKnows tests for it. 

If you thought buying a fast broadband package would guarantee you get fast Netflix video streaming, you might be surprised by what we've discovered in this episode of SamKnows Spotlight Podcast. Where peak-time Netflix download speeds can struggle to stream UHD movies even on super-fast connections, and super-efficient video encoding is cleverly masking the reality gap. In this episode, we speak to Sam Crawford to learn more about why fast broadband package doesn't necessarily guarantee a fast Netflix connection.

Satellite broadband has long been the last resort, the technology to turn to when the wires were not fast enough. But that may be about to change. Elon Musk’s Starlink is putting thousands of satellites into lower orbit, creating a mesh of high-speed broadband coverage that soon could cover pretty much the entire planet. 

To find out how good this highly-anticipated satellite broadband’s performance really is, we spoke with Wade Beaulieu, one of the lucky few accepted onto Starlink’s beta program who also had Starlink’s performance analysed by SamKnows’ whitebox, to chat about how Starlink has impacted his experience with the internet. 

In the past, satellite broadband was hardly considered the top contender for internet technology - but that may be about to change. Elon Musk’s Starlink is putting thousands of satellites into Low-Earth Orbit, creating a mesh of high-speed broadband coverage that could soon cover most of the planet.

To help us learn more about this new tech, we spoke with Sam Crawford, founder and CTO at SamKnows, to discuss the early performance data we’ve seen from Starlink’s service, and hear his views on how big of a leap forward this innovation really is.