Google Wants To Help People Check Their Broadband Connection For Traffic Shaping
from the name-and-shame-is-the-game dept
Well, well, well... With Cox getting aggressive with traffic shaping, it looks like Google is trying to give users the tools to find out what their ISP is actually doing to their broadband connection. The company has teamed up with the New America Foundation and Planet Lab to offer a platform for tools to measure what's happening on internet connections. The obvious thinking: the easier it is for anyone to recognize that their broadband connection is being tinkered with, the more likely an outcry is raised, and the provider is pushed to back down (at least on the more egregious practices -- such as what eventually happened with Comcast's traffic shaping).It will be interesting to see where this goes, or how useful it really becomes. Without meaningful competition in the broadband space, it seems like ISPs are willing to risk some consumer anger -- knowing they really don't have many other options. Still, it does suggest one more reason why specific net neutrality regulations may be premature. Let's see if providing more info along with open tools can help keep ISPs more reasonable in their network management practices.
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the height of irony... .
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Google trying to make the Internet more transparent
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measurementlab.net seems to be down.
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The is not responding
It seems that this is a major concern to a lot of people, because these tools are a little overloaded. The site did not respond the first two times I tried it. When I actually got to one of the tools, the first out of 3 servers for the tool had an approx. 8 HOUR wait. The least busy server, the one I am queued in, has about 1.25 hour wait.
wow.
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The site is not responding
Also, they are using java applets. They didn't load in Firefox, but that might just be my machine.
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I hope other tests are more reliable...
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Still hammered
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Slashdotted
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i am disapointed in TechDirt
with he subject: google back in the game.
now i see you have an article about it and my comment in http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20090128/0123343551.shtml
isn't there any more
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Google Wants To Help People Check Their Broadband Connection For Traffic Shaping
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