Not sure exactly how much bandwidth your ISP is allowing?
Ever suspected that your ISP isn't allowing you to utilise the full bandwidth of your broadband connection? If so, you may have found it difficult to determine exactly what's happening with your connection, and Google is hoping to rectify that.
According to the search-engine giant, it's developing a new set of Google tools that will help consumers identify critical data regarding their broadband service.
Google's senior policy director, Richard Whitt, was present at a panel discussion at the Innovation 08 event in San Francisco and said:
"We're trying to develop tools, software tools...that allow people to detect what's happening with their broadband connections, so they can let (ISPs) know that they're not happy with what they're getting - that they think certain services are being tampered with"
ISPs in the UK are no stranger to throttling consumer services, but rarely do we know the extent of such limitations. Google's network tools could prove to be very useful.
"If the broadband providers aren't going to tell you exactly what's happening on their networks. We want to give users the power to find out for themselves," added Whitt.
Google's engineers are said to have been working on the project for some time, but a release date remains unknown.
