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Europeans Needed To Create Broadband Performance Measure
An anonymous reader writes "The European Commission has launched a project to recruit 10,000 volunteers across Europe to measure the performance of their broadband connection over two years. The trial, believed to be the world's biggest follows similar projects in the US and the UK, run by the EC's partner SamKnows. The data collected will be used to plan the next generation of services. Those interested in signing up to take part can do so here."
samknows.eu is the URL. Which is sort of a creepy sign right there I think.
Will these folks be blessed with any rights of immunity, against anything that is dug up? Might be a good method for a TOR onion router perhaps.
How the hell we are still "measuring" throughput, packet loss and RTT in 2011????
My wife want to know if she can "WATCH YOUTUBE" , "SEND A PICTURE VIA EMAIL", "PLAY HER FAVORITE SHOW ON TV".
It's like the PC. People don't care about how many GHz, GB, Mcolors the box has. They care about what they can do...
It's like for cars: who's interested in checking the engine, knowing which brakes and knowing the maximum speed...
It's really time to get rid of this sticky measures...
throughput: Can it play a 1080p streaming video, or will it give up at 480p?
RTT: How well will my real-time online game work?
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
So in other words those of us with abysmally low bandwidth connections still being touted as 'broadband' would ruin our net experiences completely (as in, worse than not being able to stream even the lowest resolution videos) if we signed up to prove that our connections are really this horrid.
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You're supposed to put all your devices behind the "Whitebox". Using your solution would give them skewed results, according to their terms:
The Whitebox should be placed in between your existing router and your networked computers. Any devices that connected via ethernet cable to your existing router should instead connect to the Whitebox. This ensures that the SamKnows device is always aware of the network being used and will never run tests at a time when you require your full bandwidth to be available. (Whitebox faq)