Posts Tagged ‘Measurement Lab’

Bandwidth throttling is a method of ensuring a bandwidth intensive device, such as a server, will limit (“throttle”) the quantity of data it transmits and/or accepts within a specified period of time.

For ISP’s, bandwidth throttling can be used to limit users’ speeds across certain applications or limit upload speeds.

Google has opened up a free set of web tools to help determine if their you connection is blocking or limiting your bandwidth, called Measurement Lab (M-Lab).
Read more about M-Lab.