EFF Software Tracks Bandwidth Throttling

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Switzerland: EFF Software Helps Track ISP Bandwidth Throttling

The Electronic Frontier Foundation wants to thwart ISP bandwidth throttling and other devious practices that threaten the idea of network neutrality. But the FCC and other groups that oversee such matters often lack the tools and technical prowess to even know when ISPs are up to no good.

To lend a helping hand and put some more power in the hands of everyday users like you and me, the EFF recently released Switzerland, an open source software tool for “testing the integrity of data communications over networks, ISPs and firewalls.”

“Until now, there hasn’t been a reliable way to tell if somebody — a hacker, an ISP, corporate firewall or the Great Firewall of China — is modifying your Internet traffic en route,” says Peter Eckersley, EFF staff technologist and designer of Switzerland, in the press release.

SourceForge download page: Switzerland