Google to help measure your internet connection soon

Google has co-launched its M-LAB equipped tool that will help you in finding out problems with your internet connection. By using one of the tools, you will generate and save some data back-and-forth with an M-Lab server. The tools collect data related to the particular communication "flows" generated by the tool. These client-server tests do not collect information about your other Internet traffic such as your emails, Web searches or any personally identifiable information, unless you affirmatively provide it in response to a specific request (such as a form that asks you to provide your email address as well).

Other programs like DiffProbe are expected to arrive in the future. It will determine if your internet service provider is giving lower priority to some traffic in comparison to other.

Open Technology Institute and the PlanetLab Consortium are two other founders of the Lab. For advancing the internet research, all the data collected through the M-Lab will be publicly accessible on servers that are currently provided by Google.

This is at least a partly created initiative to deal with the net neutrality issues for providing better transparency to users. Although the step is more likely supporting the political interest of Google, but it will be interesting to see if same transparency is provided with issues like Google’s censorship in China, Germany and other countries. A measurement Lab tool will register the domains censored in Google.cn, and will collect those into the public database for the research work.

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