FYI -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [nncoalition] [global-nn] ISPs slowing traffic speeds in US From: <LB@lucabelli.net> Date: Wed, June 24, 2015 10:31 pm To: "Tim Karr" <tkarr@freepress.net>, "DC NN" <nncoalition@mailman.edri.org>, "global-nn@lists.riseup.net" <global-nn@lists.riseup.net> Thanks Tim!! -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [global-nn] ISPs slowing traffic speeds in US From: Tim Karr <tkarr@freepress.net> Date: Wed, June 24, 2015 7:44 pm To: "LB@lucabelli.net" <LB@lucabelli.net>, DC NN <nncoalition@mailman.edri.org>, "global-nn@lists.riseup.net" <global-nn@lists.riseup.net> Yep. Here: http://www.measurementlab.net/blog/interconnection_and_measurement_update And here: http://www.freepress.net/blog/2015/06/24/internet-health-test-reveals-networ... The test is available here: https://www.battleforthenet.com/internethealthtest/ More than 300,000 people have taken it so far and we’re amassing an unprecedented trove of data on Internet performance speeds across so called “interconnection points.” And for those wanting a deep dive, all the M-Lab test data is released publicly and available through the telescope program, a command line tool to pull down subsets of the data: https://github.com/m-lab/telescope The raw data can be accessed through BigQuery and google storage. Google storage is here: https://console.developers.google.com/storage/browser/m-lab/ = = = =Timothy KarrSenior Director of StrategyFree Presswww.freepress.nettkarr@freepress.net@TimKarr(201) 533-8838 Fighting for your rights to connect and communicate From: "LB@lucabelli.net" <LB@lucabelli.net> Reply-To: "LB@lucabelli.net" <LB@lucabelli.net> Date: Wednesday, June 24, 2015 at 6:32 PM To: DC NN <nncoalition@mailman.edri.org>, "global-nn@lists.riseup.net" <global-nn@lists.riseup.net> Subject: [global-nn] ISPs slowing traffic speeds in US Hi all, Anyone having further info on this? Major internet providers, including AT&T, Time Warner and Verizon, are slowing data from popular websites to thousands of US businesses and residential customers in dozens of cities across the country, according to a study released on Monday. The study, conducted by internet activists BattlefortheNet, looked at the results from 300,000 internet users and found significant degradations on the networks of the five largest internet service providers (ISPs), representing 75% of all wireline households across the US. [...] http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jun/22/major-internet-providers-s... Best, Luca Luca Belli, PhDResearcher, Center for Technology & Society, FGV Rio de JaneiroFounder and Co-chair, IGF Dynamic Coalition on Network NeutralityCo-founder and Co-chair, IGF Dynamic Coalition on Platform Responsibility To: nexa@server-nexa.polito.it From: demartin@polito.it Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2015 19:11:37 +0200 Subject: Re: [nexa] Guardian: "Major internet providers slowing traffic speeds for thousands across US" ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Brett Glass" <brett@lariat.net> Date: Jun 24, 2015 11:20 AM Subject: Re: [IP] Study: Major internet providers slowing traffic speeds for thousands across US To: <dave@farber.net>, "ip" <ip@listbox.com> Cc: Dave, and Everyone: "Battle for the Net" is a coalition of lobbying shops, all of which are paid by Google, Netflix, and their institutional shareholders to lobby for agendas which favor them. Now that they have won Title II regulation of the Internet (at least until the courts overturn this illegal power grab by the FCC), they have moved on to request the next items on their clients' "wish list:" free transport and settlement-free peering even in the case of highly unbalanced traffic flows. The Guardian article cites only a "study" performed by these extremely biased groups -- without presenting a link to the actual document for review and critical reading -- and no other source. This is poor journalism, and IMHO the reporter should be taken to task for failing to examine the credibility of the source. --Brett Glass On 24/06/15 16:04, J.C. DE MARTIN wrote: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Livingood, Jason" <Jason_Livingood@cable.comcast.com> Date: Jun 24, 2015 9:35 AM Subject: Re: [IP] Study: Major internet providers slowing traffic speeds for thousands across US To: "dave@farber.net" <dave@farber.net>, "ip" <ip@listbox.com>, "lauren@vortex.com" <lauren@vortex.com> Cc: Dave – For IP if you wish. It is hard to judge the merits of this “study” or “report”. I could find no report on the M-Lab site, the Free Press site, or the BattleForTheNet site. Everyone just linked to or tweeted a link to the Guardian article. When I emailed the writer asking for a pointer to the report so I could examine the technical methodology, data, and conclusions, I was told there was just a private Google Docs document. That doesn’t seem quite right — it makes it hard for engineers and researchers to independently assess this. But assuming a report is shared at some point in the future, if the data relies on tests that end users initiate, which it may, it is worth noting that such a measurement methodology was rejected by the FCC in their Measuring Broadband America report in favor of a system where the end measurement points are all homogenous. Apart from removing significant self-selection bias, it means the measurement is of the access network and not influenced by stuff like WiFi (2.4GHz vs 5GHz, distance from AP, etc.) and what other users on the LAN may be doing with the Internet connection (like using up 50% of the capacity doing a download which would render speed measurements invalid). Jason Livingood Comcast – Internet Services On 24/06/15 12:58, J.C. DE MARTIN wrote: Major internet providers slowing traffic speeds for thousands across US http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jun/22/major-internet-providers-s... Major internet providers, including AT&T, Time Warner and Verizon, are slowing data from popular websites to thousands of US businesses and residential customers in dozens of cities across the country, according to a study released on Monday. The study, conducted by internet activists BattlefortheNet, looked at the results from 300,000 internet users and found significant degradations on the networks of the five largest internet service providers (ISPs), representing 75% of all wireline households across the US. _______________________________________________ nexa mailing list nexa@server-nexa.polito.it https://server-nexa.polito.it/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nexa