Search outfit Google has begun offering tools to expose Internet
service providers that choke traffic or built two tier networks. The move is
part of its "net neutrality" campaign which is designed to make usre that all
Internet traffic is treated equally.
Google worked with New America
Foundation's Open Technology Institute, the PlanetLab Consortium, and academic
researchers to create an online Measurement Lab so that boffins can detect
Internet traffic manipulation.
The tools allow users to test why an Internet
application doesn't work as expected or your connection seems flaky and if the
problem is caused by your ISP. M-Lab went online Wednesday with three
diagnostic tools running on computer servers near Google headquarters in the
US.
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