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Google Tools Will Tell You If Your ISP Is Slowing Down Your Connection
Posted by Matt Buchanan at 9:00 AM on June 15, 2008
And I was starting to feel unfulfilled by the stuff coming out of Google's labs. Its senior policy director, Richard Whitt, says that they're cooking up software that'll tell you if your ISP is screwing with or slowing down your connection because you're hogging too much bandwidth, and what exactly they're doing to it. (There's already some available, BTW, since Whitt didn't mention a release date.) But it's not necessarily because they believe willy nilly in net neutrality.
Google just thinks that you have a right to know what your ISP is doing. If your ISP won't tell you, you should have the tools to figure it out. In fact, according to one article cited by Hot Hardware, when net neutrality first started becoming an issue, at first Google considered just going along with ISPs: "We would come out fine--a non-neutral world would be a good world for us." Do no evil, eh? [Hot Hardware via /.]
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kumuasata
Posted 9:26 AM 15/6/08
@Teh Emo Penguin:
You devil! You bad person, you! You're such a rebel. Hell YEA!
On Topic: Nice tool xD
kumuasata
Teh Emo Penguin
Posted 9:08 AM 15/6/08
This makes me feel evil...
I don't know why.
But I'm goin' to download it.
Teh Emo Penguin
Trevorblanco
Posted 10:09 AM 15/6/08
Damn ISP's
Trevorblanco
MrBlahBlah
Posted 10:08 AM 15/6/08
@VioletArrows: wow. fuck your ISP, man
MrBlahBlah
max.goedjen
Posted 9:53 AM 15/6/08
Good to hear Google is living up to their motto.
max.goedjen
VioletArrows
Posted 9:49 AM 15/6/08
I already know they are, but really, I don't have a choice. At least I can still use the internet at a reasonable speed. I got stuck with one of the little guys who are supposed to be better for about two weeks before they shut me off and didn't say anything. And I hadn't even had the chance to do anything *yet*. Then they wanted to charge me $40 to reconnect the line. $40 every couple of weeks (something told me they'd just keep doing it) for not even dial-up (I found out I was sharing the same line with at least 30 of my neighbors, resulting in 6 kb/sec). I hung up on them.
VioletArrows
Genjinaro
Posted 9:42 AM 15/6/08
1 of many reasons why Google is just simply awesome.
Genjinaro
Metkis
Posted 10:15 AM 15/6/08
So can we take legal actions if that were the case?
Metkis
al-CIA-da
Posted 10:48 AM 15/6/08
tried the alternative link
[broadband.mpi-sws.mpg.de]
but it didn't work...can't wait to try this one out
@VioletArrows: who was your provider???
al-CIA-da
AusDal
Posted 10:38 AM 15/6/08
Glad to hear as well... but didn't know about this...
"We would come out fine-a non-neutral world would be a good world for us."
I'm knee deep in Google. Can you link/source the quote, por favor?
Gracias!
AusDal
souldante
Posted 1:10 PM 15/6/08
lol..
my ISP is my bro-in-law's
souldante
Monty
Posted 1:37 PM 15/6/08
How could you? You are engaged in a long term relationship with your ISP, one based on trust (EULA), friendship (only one provider), and love (you use the connection for porn). And now you are going to treat them like a criminal? Would they rat you out if a subpoena landed on them (RIAA)? So, why wouldn't you give them the trust they so richly deserve?
I am just .. disappointed.
Monty
Kaiser-Machead's got LindsayJoy's cookies on the SuperDrive
Posted 2:05 PM 15/6/08
@VioletArrows: Send me their address, and I will reduce their facility to cinders.
Kaiser-Machead's got LindsayJoy's cookies on the SuperDrive
kbraun819
Posted 1:58 PM 15/6/08
@Monty:
This man must be a high level worker for time warner
kbraun819
cruddy skull
Posted 2:40 PM 15/6/08
@Monty: STOP! please! your making me feel guilty.
cruddy skull
ph0sfeen
Posted 3:03 PM 15/6/08
the title of this jumpstation suggested that something exists? this was a waste of bb.
ph0sfeen
Cucmbr
Posted 12:11 AM 16/6/08
The ISPs see all the money Google, Itunes, etc. are making and wonder why they aren't getting more $ for providing all the access, especially with increased bandwidth needs.
Which is pretty ridiculous, but when $ is involved, don't put anything past a corporation. The maneuvering between ISPs and content providers will get worse before it gets better. Use your imagination on that one.
Cucmbr
The Incredible OMG! Ponies!
Posted 11:53 PM 15/6/08
Here's a better way to find out if your ISP is throttling your connection: Look at the name on the bill.
If it's Comcast, you're being throttled.
The Incredible OMG! Ponies!
firesign
Posted 2:01 AM 16/6/08
@Cucmbr: totally off topic, but i just wanted to say:
skyline chili ftw!
hello, fellow cincinnatian.
firesign
VioletArrows
Posted 3:37 AM 16/6/08
@Kaiser-Machead's got LindsayJoy's cookies on the SuperDrive and @al-CIA-da: Meh, I don't even friggin remember, this was across 2 weeks a year ago. About a week of the shakes from no internet and no work productivity, I went crawling down to RoadRunner/BrightHouse, and honestly, I've been pretty happy ever since(save for those weird resets I have to do whenever I switch from hard line to wifi).
VioletArrows
bitfactory
Posted 3:09 AM 16/6/08
@Cucmbr: You are correct. This is more of a reaction to replacements to their programming. More content delivered through the internet = less programming bought through their service.
All this talk about bandwidth is horseshit.
Also, 4-way with bean FTW!
bitfactory
Dexxa32
Posted 7:00 AM 16/6/08
LOL, is everyone ready for 'google takes over the World!"!! LOL, coming to a headline near you! www.FireMe.to/udi
Dexxa32
Papa Midnight
Posted 7:33 AM 16/6/08
What ever happened to internet via the toilet, google? :P
Papa Midnight
maven2k
Posted 6:10 AM 17/6/08
I would totally download this. I have Roadrunner "turbo" and it seems to be losing it's "turb-ness" lately. I trust Google a hell of a lot more than Time Warner.
maven2k