Detailed Report Shows How ISPs Are Making 'Business Choice' To Make Your Internet Connection Terrible

Posted by BernardSwiss on Oct 31, 2014 3:36 AM EDT
Techdirt; By Mike Masnick
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A couple of years ago, we wrote about an effort by the big broadband players to push the FCC away from using M-Lab to measure basic network diagnostics on the internet. M-Lab is a very interesting project, focused on collecting a huge amount of data about internet performance, and making that data widely available. In the past, for example, we've highlighted an M-Lab project showing which ISPs were throttling BitTorrent.

Now, M-Lab has released a new report, along with all of the data and a very nice tool to analyze it all, called the Internet Observatory, that looks at ISP interconnection and, most importantly, its impact on consumer internet performance.

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