SamKnows Spotlight: Recent Episodes
Sam Crawford
AI expert Richard Windsor, Founder of Radio Free Mobile, joins us to discuss the rapid evolution of the technology over the past year and how it could transform customer service. Alex Salter, Founder and CEO of SamKnows, discusses how AI could enhance SamKnows’ portfolio of products, both for consumers and its ISP partners.
CEO Alex Salter tells us what being part of the QSDK means for the company and the huge benefits it will bring to SamKnows’ customers. And lead integrations engineer, Ben Janoff, will dive into the technical detail, revealing exactly how our integration with the QSDK works and how it will massively reduce the work taken to roll out SamKnows’ tests.
Sam Crawford joins Barry Collins to discuss Starlink’s performance figures in greater detail. He also gives his views on the emergence of potential rivals and the new markets that Starlink has moved into over the past few months, including aviation and mobile connectivity.
SamKnows CEO Alex Salter and Comcast vice president Jason Livingood talk about how the broadband industry is changing and how it moves beyond its obsession with speed.
Hear more from Dr Jane Parry and Sophie Gordon as they discuss how the Covid lockdowns transformed the way we worked and what it means for the broadband industry now that hybrid working is here to stay
Jamie Mason Head of measurement support for SamKnows, explains how SamKnows test the performance of many of the world’s most popular games, and why the location of the game’s servers are absolutely critical to the experience that gamers will receive.
Dr Ahmed Alsohaily Chief technologist and adviser for the governor of the CITC tells us how Saudi Arabia delivered on the Kingdom’s goals to improve the performance of its broadband networks and how the big games companies have realized the potential of serving Saudi’s young gaming population.
What was the internet industry like in its early days? How did speed come to dominate broadband marketing? Comcast vice president Jason Livingood and SamKnows founder Sam Crawford share their expertise.
Sam, our founder and chief technology officer draws on SamKnows’ exclusive data to reveal why gigabit-grade connections deliver more than download speed benefits. Plus, he explains why Wi-Fi is becoming a bottleneck in the home and why speed is becoming less critical to consumers.
Richard is Chief Executive Officer of Zen Internet which is one of the UK’s few remaining independent broadband providers – and one of the most respected. Richard explains which apps consume the most bandwidth, why access speeds are outpacing technology, and the 5G myths.
Roxanne Robinson, SamKnows’ director of government projects explains what lessons can the US learn from other regulators when it comes to giving consumers more information?
Walter Johnson, former member of the FCC’s Office of Engineering & Technology gives us his frank views of why the labelling system failed in the past and what should be included in the labels this time around.
Sam Crawford explains how his latest game-changing product for ISPs can find internet performance anomalies in realtime and trace the fault back to its root cause automatically.
When Facebook falls off the internet it's big news, various outages has brought down many major website this year. What are the knock on effects of major websites going down and should we be worried about it? In this month's podcast we speak the SamKnows founder and CTO Sam Crawford to find out.
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.