Google to develop ISP throttling detector

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All a bit vague atm. But this could be useful for countries where shaping/throttling is endemic.

"We're trying to develop tools, software tools...that allow people to detect what's happening with their broadband connections, so they can let [ISPs] know that they're not happy with what they're getting -- that they think certain services are being tampered with," Google senior policy director Richard Whitt said this morning during a panel discussion at Santa Clara University, an hour south of San Francisco.
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Certain throttling patterns are easy to detect, but with an overloaded network (often the case in SA) that might prove difficult to detect.
 
Wonder if it will be any different from the rest of the current tools available.


Edit only noticed now that the op was in 2008 :erm:
 
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Looking forward to this ......then we will know WTF is happening instead of one company blaming the other company and vice versa
 
SYNERGY said:
Isn't there a tool already? A couple.

http://measurementlab.net/measurement-lab-tools
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Thread is 4 years old....back then there were no such tools [*]. Google did actually launch such a tool in collaboration with others and called it....drum roll... measurementlab.net :p

* Maybe the Stanford tool...not sure when that was launched

Pr⊕phet said:
This is going to help us how? We'd still be throttled, shaping is included in most normal packages.
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Back in 2008 ISPs had a habit of interpreting unshaped rather creatively. Hence a objective test being helpful. Clearly a measurement tool won't actually *fix* the shaping.

I reckon they've become even more creative since, but thats somewhat OT.
 
HavocXphere said:
Thread is 4 years old....back then there were no such tools [*]. Google did actually launch such a tool in collaboration with others and called it....drum roll... measurementlab.net :p

* Maybe the Stanford tool...not sure when that was launched


Back in 2008 ISPs had a habit of interpreting unshaped rather creatively. Hence a objective test being helpful. Clearly a measurement tool won't actually *fix* the shaping.

I reckon they've become even more creative since, but thats somewhat OT.
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Yikes! Completely missed the date of the post
 
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