Wanted: Skype Plug-In to police my connection
Remember all that "Net Neutrality" balderdash? The paranoid whining about ISPs messing with your bits? That complete fantasy?
Well, it's real. It's now. Here's a table that shows interference by ISPs in the US and around the world. This data details the degree they block or throttle legal bittorent traffic. Robb from Hillsboro, Oregon, analyzes Comcast's active controls on P2P traffic in the Broadband Reports forums.
How much are ISPs throttling or blocking Skype traffic?
And how can I know?
So here's my wishlist:
A Skype Citizen plug-in that:
- Detects and shows:
- the health of my connection to the Skype network.
- the quality of my connectivity and the connectivity of nearby supernodes.
- interference at the LAN, WAN, and Internet levels.
- Makes it easy to act on this information:
- uploading issues to Skype, or an aggregator
- comparing my information with others who are near me on the network
- move data and charts to social media, like my facebook page, flickr, or my blog.
- Runs in the background but alert for problems or opportunities
Bonus points for elegant, powerful and easily grasped visualizations of all this abstract stuff.
Push policing power to the edge of the Skype network. Let users discover hands on our Internet and organize consumer and political action in response.
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Comments
so you would then allow "legal" and other bittorrent and p2p traffic just enter into corporate networks. that is not the reality and that is not the way to manage a network. against the skype community dreams. which IT manager would allow skype.exe in their network if suddenly metacafe.com movies can start using the bandwidth. what does that have to do with company / office productivity. right. nothing. get real...
Posted by: Jan Geirnaert | Tropicaljantiea | August 21, 2007 10:37 AM
I guess I missed something. Where did you say it would allow other applications to use skype bandwidth? I thought it was just a monitoring app for ISP interference?
Posted by: David Mackey | August 21, 2007 07:20 PM