Opher BanarieAre ISPs Playing Fair?
August 21st 2008 18:03
Recently Comcast was found by the FCC to have been interfering with the activities of subscribers to its Internet service. They were using technology that identified users of file sharing software and causing that software to stop working by injecting additional packets into the data stream.
Originally, Comcast had denied that they were doing this and it took some efforts by independent sources to research what was going on before the FCC finally took action.
But other ISPs may be doing similar things and either are too small to have been noticed, or just no one has gone to their network to test what is going on. So now the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has written a handy "how-to" guide to determine if your ISP is playing fair with your Internet service.
EFF is also interested in receiving reports about each ISP and test results. That will help them determine if additional FCC action should be called for regarding other ISP companies.
Originally, Comcast had denied that they were doing this and it took some efforts by independent sources to research what was going on before the FCC finally took action.
But other ISPs may be doing similar things and either are too small to have been noticed, or just no one has gone to their network to test what is going on. So now the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has written a handy "how-to" guide to determine if your ISP is playing fair with your Internet service.
EFF is also interested in receiving reports about each ISP and test results. That will help them determine if additional FCC action should be called for regarding other ISP companies.
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