How M-Lab Determines User Location and Selects Servers
This blog post describes the two geolocation systems M-Lab uses for server selection and data annotation and how researchers can leverage metadata about the server selection to identify potentially erroneous client geolocation results in the annotated data.
How fast is my Internet? Speed Tests, Accuracy, NDT & M-Lab
‘How fast is my Internet?’
It seems like a simple question, but in fact there are several ways to approach the question and no one correct way to answer it. Given that there are so many different methods used to measure Internet speed, it’s not surprising that we get emails asking about people’s Internet connection speeds almost every day. There’s actually an area of academic study around this question — the Internet Measurement Community, which strives to develop scientifically rigorous methodologies that can be used to measure different aspects of Internet connectivity.