Sam knows testing

[#1]

Just had this email back from Sam Knows:
"Hello Rick,
Thank you for contacting SamKnows about your SamKnows Whitebox.
I can confirm that your Whitebox does have gigabit ports.
Thank you for your support."
This should clear things up then for us who were worried.
Rick.

[#2]

Reply received

Quote

Yes, we will send you a Whitebox with gigabit LAN ports. It supports internet traffic speeds of up to 540Mbps down/300Mbps up, but local traffic should transfer in full Gbit speeds.

[#3]

Sorry to sound stupid - But what does "It supports internet traffic speeds of up to 540Mbps down/300Mbps up" mean?  I have near on 80/20 - so I should be ok?

[#4]

80/20 is 80Mbps down 20Mbps up so plenty of room for when we get fibre to the premises

[#5]

Thanks for clearing that up - seems like we've all recently had the emails and filled the online form - hopefully they'll ship these out soon.

[#6]

Mine is on it's way. got an email earlier today with a Royal Mail tracking number 

[#7]

Damn you've beaten us to it!!!

[#8]

I fillde in the form but have heard nothing back 
John

[#9]

What model is everyone getting?
Mine arrived today and is a TL-WR741 which only has 10/100M ports.
Like other I was never given the option for home network speed, however I've got a VMG8924 which has 10/100/1000M ports so it would degrade my network.

[#10]

If I get the same then it's going back. Still waiting for mine!

[#11]

Mine arrived today as well, and its also a TL-WR741, so its plugged into a spare port on my HH5, so they won't get the proper results as my NAS is on a gig port.
Looking at the website, it all looks fairly consistent so far, so looking to see how things go.

[#12]

odd they still sending out those old units, as they not capable of the streaming testing, for that they sent me a new cisco gigabit unit.

[#13]

Strange - Plusnet invited me (by email) to take part in this trial.
Even though I got one from Sam a couple of years ago.
Mines actually connected properly.
It's some kind of Tp-Link router flashed with custom firmware.
Mine does test streaming speeds for YouTube, NetFlix and iPlayer as well as other stuff.
I've added last years download speeds.

[#14]

Ah, that explains why the streaming tests have no results, guess I will switch them off then!

[#15]

Mine arrived today http://www.tplink.com/en/products/details/cat-9_TL-WDR3600.html so full Gbit and a load of other features which I won't be using