With all the recent scandals about how some Internet Service Providers block or throttle the Internet connection of their customers, one can’t help but wish for a miracle tool that can help them check whether they’ve been subjected to the same behavior.

 

This is where Google comes into action, with the Measurement Lab (M-Lab), an open platform designed for Internet measurements. The technology was supported by the New America Foundation’s Open Technology Institute, the PlanetLab Consortium, and academic researchers, the search giant revealed.

 

According to their explanations, M-Lab is a tool designed to address the needs of researchers, who so far have found it hard to share data with one another due to a lack of widely-distributed servers with ample connectivity.

 

But starting this year, Google said it will provide researchers with 36 servers in 12 locations in the United States and Europe, while also helping them with making their data publicly available. This will create the necessary bridges to provide researchers with access to valuable data.

 

Transparency has always been an essential component of the Internet’s success, and Internet users deserve to be well-informed about the performance of their broadband connections. For that to happen, researchers need resources to develop new analytical tools, the M-Lab website writes.

 

Users are also provided with several tools to check their Internet connection, however they have been warned that they are still under development and for now, there might still be some bugs and errors. Their number is expected to grow as more researchers participate in the program.