I don’t trust Google any more than I do Cox, or TWC or any of them, but the tools might be interesting to play with…
Also see The Dark Lord of Broadband, which just came across my desk via the latest edition of Wired.
It took him six weeks of short-burst sleuthing to reach his conclusion. In a detailed post on DSL Reports—a site for broadband enthusiasts—under his online name, funchords, Topolski laid out a case against his Internet service provider. Comcast appeared to be blocking file-sharing applications by creating fake data packets that interfered with trading sessions. The packets were cleverly disguised to look as if they were coming from the user, not the ISP. It was as if, in the middle of a phone call to a friend, Comcast got on the line and in the caller’s own voice told the friend he was hanging up, while the caller simultaneously heard the same message in the friend’s voice.
“Google and a group of partners have released a set of tools designed to help broadband customers and researchers measure performance of Internet connections. The set of tools, at MeasurementLab.net, includes a network diagnostic tool, a network path diagnostic tool and a tool to measure whether the user’s broadband provider is slowing BitTorrent peer-to-peer (P-to-P) traffic. Coming soon to the M-Lab applications is a tool to determine whether a broadband provider is giving some traffic a lower priority than other traffic, and a tool to determine whether a provider is degrading certain users or applications. ‘Transparency is our goal,’ said Vint Cerf, chief Internet evangelist at Google and a co-developer of TCP/IP. ‘Our intent is to make more [information] visible for all who are interested in the way the network is functioning at all layers.’”
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Google tool: MeasurementLab.net
I don’t trust Google any more than I do Cox, or TWC or any of them, but the tools might be interesting to play with…
Also see The Dark Lord of Broadband, which just came across my desk via the latest edition of Wired.
“Google and a group of partners have released a set of tools designed to help broadband customers and researchers measure performance of Internet connections. The set of tools, at MeasurementLab.net, includes a network diagnostic tool, a network path diagnostic tool and a tool to measure whether the user’s broadband provider is slowing BitTorrent peer-to-peer (P-to-P) traffic. Coming soon to the M-Lab applications is a tool to determine whether a broadband provider is giving some traffic a lower priority than other traffic, and a tool to determine whether a provider is degrading certain users or applications. ‘Transparency is our goal,’ said Vint Cerf, chief Internet evangelist at Google and a co-developer of TCP/IP. ‘Our intent is to make more [information] visible for all who are interested in the way the network is functioning at all layers.’”
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