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Google M-Lab provides a window into your ISP

Google's Internet measurement effort has potential
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Google M-Lab provides a window into your ISP

Jeff Caruso By Jeff Caruso
Measuring the speed of your Internet connection and figuring out just how your ISP handles certain types of traffic has always been difficult to do accurately. Now Google, which has always been interested in Net neutrality, is stepping in with a solution to the problem. Read full story

Jeff Caruso is site editor at Network World.

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Google Launches M-Lab Measurement Tools Today Google launched a new public service aimed at testing your ISP's practices and performance. The Internet community has been struggling with the thorny topic of Net neutrality. What has been missing from the heated debate is hard data. Now you can get your own data and let your measurements be added to the common database in the cloud. The site called M-Lab hosts three cool test tools with more coming. It is also a repository of information and pointers to other performance measurement tools.

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