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City of Chicago Digital Equity Resources

Resources promoted by the City of Chicago to assist residents with Internet connectivity, device access, and digital skills training.
Aug 19, 2022
Publication

A Comparative Analysis of Ookla Speedtest and Measurement Labs Network Diagnostic Test (NDT7)

Kyle MacMillan, Tarun Mangla, James Saxon, Nicole Marwell, Nick Feamster
A comparative analysis of two popular speed test tools: Ookla's Speedtest and Measurement Lab's Network Diagnostic Test.
May 24, 2022
Working Paper

Beyond Speed Test: Measuring Latency Under Load Across Different Speed Tiers

Kyle MacMillan, Nick Feamster
In this brief position paper, we use preliminary experiments from a home broadband measurement testbed across Chicago to demonstrate that...
Sep 01, 2021
Working Paper

Estimating WebRTC Video QoE Metrics Without Using Application Headers

Taveesh Sharma, Tarun Mangla, Arpit Gupta, Junchen Jiang, Nick Feamster
This paper considers whether we can use more standard features in the network traffic, namely the IP and UDP headers,...
Sep 19, 2023
Insight

What’s on Your Internet Performance Dashboard?

Marc Richardson
Read about the Internet Performance Dashboard that comes packaged with our Netrics devices.
Oct 14, 2021
Publication

Broadband Internet Performance: A View From the Gateway

Srikanth Sundaresan, Walter de Donato, Nick Feamster, Renata Teixeira, Sam Crawford, Antonio Pescape
We present the first study of network access link performance measured directly from home gateway devices.
Aug 01, 2011
Publication

BISmark: A Testbed for Deploying Measurements and Applications in Broadband Access Networks

Srikanth Sundaresan, Sam Burnett, Nick Feamster, Walter De Donato
BISmark (Broadband Internet Service Benchmark) is a deployment of home routers running custom software, and backend infrastructure to manage experiments...
Jun 01, 2014
Working Paper

Best Practices for Collecting Speed Test Data

Kyle MacMillan, Tarun Mangla, Marc Richardson, Nick Feamster
A set of recommendations for gathering and analyzing crowdsourced speed test measurements to support broadband investment allocation.
Aug 12, 2022
Working Paper

A First Look at the Spatial and Temporal Variability of Internet Performance Data in Hyperlocal Geographies

Taveesh Sharma, Jonatas Marques, Nicole Marwell, Nick Feamster
Our ongoing research seeks to address these issues by developing innovative sampling methods and statistical models to provide a more...
Sep 19, 2023
Publication

Measuring the Performance and Network Utilization of Popular Video Conferencing Applications

Kyle MacMillan, Tarun Mangla, James Saxon, Nick Feamster
Video conferencing applications (VCAs) have become a critical Internet application, even more so during the COVID-19 pandemic, as users worldwide...
May 27, 2021