Azureus Plugin - Network Monitor - FCC - Net Neutrality

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Help Azureus (Vuze) Gather Data on Internet Traffic Throttling!

Is your Internet Service Provider using “traffic shaping” techniques to interfere with your Internet traffic? There is currently an important debate going on regarding this very issue. Vuze has taken a stand on behalf of its users by asking the Federal Communications Commission to adopt rules that would protect Vuze users against unfair practices and require ISPs to tell consumers exactly what they are doing. The FCC held a public hearing and is still considering our request, but a growing number of groups and individuals are weighing in with their own concerns.

We at Azureus (Vuze) decided there was something important we can do to help elevate the debate. We created a simple software “plug-in” that works with your Vuze (Azureus) application to gather information regarding potential interference with your Internet traffic. Specifically, this small piece of software monitors your network connections and every ten minutes measures the number of interrupted connections (called “reset tcp connections”) and then displays the results to you. By selecting the "share results" check-box you can also share these results with our central server, which enables us to then aggregate the results and compare them with customers of other ISPs. We encourage you to share your results with us. The plug-in has a negligible impact on your network usage.

Be assured that sharing this data with us does not involve disclosure of any of your personally identifiable information. We will aggregate the data collected and may talk about it or disclose it publicly, but no data about any specific user will be disclosed as part of this effort.
If you are interested in participating in this research you need only download the plug-in from Sourceforge.net (which also helps us distribute the whole Azureus(Vuze) application) by going to this page:
http://azureus.sourceforge.net/plugin_[...]znetmon

It’s very easy and takes only a moment. Right now the plug-in only works on PCs, not Macs, but we are actively working on future versions. Users from all countries are welcome to participate. Alternatively, if you want to install the plug-in user the “plug-in wizard” built into our application, go to our Wiki to learn how to do that. Finally, we are working on a more advanced version of the plug-in, for those who are interested. As it becomes available, information about it will be made available on our Wiki.

Thanks for your cooperation in this research. We hope that contributing more complete factual data to the debate over appropriate “network management” will lead to better regulatory solutions.

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