I have joined Sam Knows and am awaiting receipt of the "white box" - the only thing is I am on a gigabit network and I used to be with BT and was using an older white box which was 100mps. I have emailed Sam Knows to ask if any of the newer boxes have a gigabit ethernet port and if not then I will just send it back. Rick.
Although there is nothing wrong with speeds or service, I did have a few problems when I was with BT, also had BT TV at the time, and missed out on a few recordings of the MotoGP, so having something to monitor the line should help. That said, I too use Gig ports, especially on my NAS, and would not like to go back to 100Mbps, so mine will be going back too if its not Gig!
It seems that versions 5.0 and 8.0 of the whitebox have gig ehternet (https://www.samknows.com/broadband/uploads/methodology/SQ303-002-EN-Whitebox-Briefing-Fixed.pdf - scroll down to page 6 of the pdf) - I hope they send me either of these. Rick.
I've been on Samknows for a few years, I was originally supplied the 'whitebox' with 100Mb LAN (TP-Link WR741) which they then replaced with the black whitebox, a TP-Link WDR3600 which has Gb LAN after asking.
My Sam Knows box is just plugged into a switch port on my network rather than as a 'through' device as shown on their installation guide. As a result I don't care whether it's got a gigabit port or not :)
Potentially yes but, looking at the monthly report, in practice no. I have had the Sam Knows box lock up on more than one occasion and stop submitting data until a reboot so I'm not happy to pass all my traffic through it...
That's good to know - I work from home and access a VPN for the office and download large files too. It worked ok with my BT line - just hope they send me a GB version.
