How To Test if your ISP is manipulating BitTorrent traffic (throttling P2P traffic)

Does your ISP throttling P2P traffic?, actually many ISP around world do, but of course not all of them

ISPs might be throttling P2P traffic without letting the users know about these practices. There are not many good tools available to test ISPs behavior and if they are throttling some kind of traffic. Google along with New America Foundation’s Open Technology Institute, the PlanetLab Consortium, and researchers came up with tool test If Your ISP Is Throttling BitTorrent Traffic, its called Measurement Lab, an open platform for researchers and also a set of tools for the average web user.

Through Measurement Labs (M-Labs) Google will provide researchers with 36 servers in 12 locations in the US and Europe, these servers will provide the accuracy and scalability for the tools researchers already working, like testing the connection speeds, ISP throttling behavior, various diagnostic tests etc. M-Labs will serve as a community platform, the data collected through M-Labs will be given back to the public so that others can build on the work.

There are 3 tools available right now. Access all the tools from Measurement Labs, and you can use all of them to test your connections.

1.Network Diagnostic Tool

As the name suggests Network Diagnostic Tool (NDT) provides speed and diagnostic test. Not only upload and download speeds but NDT also shows what if there are any problems like configuration or network problems.

2-Glasnost

Glasnost attempts to detect whether your Internet access provider is performing application-specific traffic shaping. Currently, you can test if your ISP is throttling or blocking BitTorrent. Tests for other applications will follow soon.

ISP Blocking around the world

If you take a look at the results map you will notice a high concentration of ISPs that are throttling Bittorrent traffic in the United States and Singapore.

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