App To Keep ISPs Honest About Bandwidth Caps

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday May 11, 2011 @09:00AM from the keeping-track-of-the-trackers dept.

alphadogg writes "A browser-based app developed by Georgia Tech researchers is designed to help Internet users make better use of their bandwidth – and to make sure ISPs are holding up their end of the bandwidth bargain. The Kermit app, which is being shown off Wednesday (PDF) at the CHI 2011 Conference on Human Factors in Computing in Vancouver, emerges at a time when service providers are starting to place bandwidth caps not just on wireless services, but on wireline services, too. AT&T, for example, is putting such caps in place this month for its DSL and U-verse customers. At least initially, such caps aren't expected to affect all but the very heaviest bandwidth users."

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Re:Browser based? by Anonymous Coward · 2011-05-11 09:09 · Score: 5, Informative

http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~marshini/files/kermit.pdf
That's the actual paper on it. You have to read it to get the info as to how they really did it - via DD-WRT with RFLOW. Your suspicions are correct though - they can't do it with just a browser.