Internet Health Checker Checks If Your Internet Service Provider Is Slowing Down Your Connection
The FCC recently set new rules to prevent ISPs from selectively degrading the quality of your connection to certain services, as some have done in the past . This tool from Fight for the Future can check if this kind of degradation is happening to you.
The tool checks your connection to different points on the Internet that are outside your ISP’s own network. This helps determine if there are bottlenecks between different networks designed to slow down your connection. This type of slowdown is known to have happened when Comcast capped Netflix to negotiate a higher fee.
The test itself can give you a good idea of how stable your connection speed is. However, the organization is also aggregating data from all user tests to get a bird’s eye view of ISP activity . Struggle for the Future hopes that with enough people testing their connection, we can see which companies are responsible for bottlenecks that more easily violate net neutrality .