Google To Expose ISPs That Throttle Your Broadband
You might suspect that your ISP is sabotaging your download speeds but it’s not always easy to detect. Google is aiming to change all of that. The search engine giant is working on some new Google tools that will show if your ISP is squeezing or slowing down your Net connection because it thinks you’re using too much bandwidth. Considering that UK ISPs are threatening to do just that to people who watch a lot of the BBC’s cool iPlayer service, this is an issue of growing concern. “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,” commented Google senior policy director Richard Whitt at a panel discussion at the Innovation 08 event in San Francisco. He added: “If the broadband providers aren’t going to tell you exactly what’s happening on their networks. We want to give users the power to find out for themselves.” There’s no date on when these tools will arrive but Google said they have been working on them for some time now.-Martin Lynch [The Register] internet ISP google
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