Worried that your ISP is choking your bandwidth?

Then jump over to the Electronic Frontier Foundation. The EFF has released Switzerland, a free tool with which users can "test the integrity" of their Internet connection. Fred von Lohmann, EFF Senior Intellectual Property Attorney, remarked:

The sad truth is that the FCC is ill-equipped to detect ISPs interfering with your Internet connection. It's up to concerned Internet users to investigate possible network neutrality violations, and EFF's Switzerland software is designed to help with that effort. Comcast isn't the first, and certainly won't be the last, ISP to meddle surreptitiously with its subscribers' Internet communications for its own benefit.

Peter Eckersley, EFF Staff Technologist and designer of Switzerland, added:

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. The few tests available have been for narrow and specific kinds of interference, or have required tremendous amounts of advanced forensic labor. Switzerland is designed to make general-purpose ISP testing faster and easier.

Switzerland is described as an open source, command-line tool which will sniff out whether your ISP has modified or injected packets of data in your connection.

Via: boingboing

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