SamKnows - Singapore Campaign

[chaicka]

SamKnows - Measures Singapore Broadband Performance

SamKnows aim to provide Singapore with reliable and accurate statistics of broadband performance across Singapore.

Volunteers will receive a purpose-built broadband measurement unit which can be plugged into the existing modem/router. This is called the SamKnows Whitebox.

For more details, please visit SamKnows

 

[chaicka]

Installation Diagram:

 

[chaicka]

SamKnows WhiteBox is a TP-Link TL-WR1043ND (hardware version 1.8)

 

[LemonT]

For user portal, the timezone is not set to SG. Testers do take note.

 

[albertlee]

FYI, the whitebox (router) unit should be kept turn-on at all time for 2 years according to SamKnows. So if you're not running your network 24x7 then this project is not suitable for you.

 

[metabaron]

And I'm working on something that should suit the ones with not a 24/7 connection

 

[game goondu]

wonder what kind of info will be send out to them?
what if later they see that i surf prawn site 90% of the times?

 

[misato]

wonder what kind of info will be send out to them?
what if later they see that i surf prawn site 90% of the times?

so long your of a legal age.. why worry.

if your concern, run a sniffer and you will know.

 

[richneo]

bros.. u guys also in the program liaoz?

 

[Mach3.2]

bros.. u guys also in the program liaoz?

Yup..

 

[nightkids86]

just reply SAM confirmation email
do we get a login id to see the stats ?

 

[chaicka]

For user portal, the timezone is not set to SG. Testers do take note.

This can be easily changed under "Your Details" in the report portal.

 

[Mach3.2]

just reply SAM confirmation email
do we get a login id to see the stats ?

You can reset yourself one.

 

[chaicka]

Hehehe... Interestingly, the tests/measurements only kick in when traffic is under 25kB/s down and under 8 kB/s up.

 

[misato]

bros.. u guys also in the program liaoz?

i am in the program as well. Just yet to collect the router as no one was around when the postman came.

 

[misato]

Hehehe... Interestingly, the tests/measurements only kick in when traffic is under 25kB/s down and under 8 kB/s up.

That is a very low threshold... looks like i must set scheduling on my utorrent to allow time for the test to be performed.

 

[nightkids86]

Hehehe... Interestingly, the tests/measurements only kick in when traffic is under 25kB/s down and under 8 kB/s up.

if the test is performing half way, you start to surf net/downloading.
will the test stop/pause ? if not, how much bandwidth does it consume ?

 

[misato]

if the test is performing half way, you start to surf net/downloading.
will the test stop/pause ? if not, how much bandwidth does it consume ?

your concern is the opposite of mine as i seed a few selected private torrent and thus traffic is consistently being generated thats way above the testing threshold. This means in my network.. the whitebox would become the white elephant.

 

[chaicka]

Based on 3 days of monitoring results, seems like Video Streaming of SuperInternet isn't that good.

Definition of not that good is "inconsistency" and "wide range of buffering time - between 1.44s and 3.74s".

Here are the results captured:

2012-04-14 15:00:00 2.12 0.00 5
2012-04-14 09:00:00 1.44 0.00 7
2012-04-14 03:00:00 1.82 0.00 7
2012-04-13 10:00:00 3.74 0.00 1
2012-04-13 09:00:00 - - 2
2012-04-13 03:00:00 1.92 0.00 7

Most of these hours are when I am not at home and most likely no or low usage of the fiber connection.

 

[LemonT]

Based on 3 days of monitoring results, seems like Video Streaming of SuperInternet isn't that good.

Definition of not that good is "inconsistency" and "wide range of buffering time - between 1.44s and 3.74s".

Here are the results captured:

2012-04-14 15:00:00 2.12 0.00 5
2012-04-14 09:00:00 1.44 0.00 7
2012-04-14 03:00:00 1.82 0.00 7
2012-04-13 10:00:00 3.74 0.00 1
2012-04-13 09:00:00 - - 2
2012-04-13 03:00:00 1.92 0.00 7

Most of these hours are when I am not at home and most likely no or low usage of the fiber connection.

What's your failed DNS queries? StarHub MIF is 100% fail, but no issue with surfing.