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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
Insight

Broadband Terms, Questions, and Myths

James Saxon
Common broadband terms, questions, and myths, explained.
Mar 01, 2021
Insight

Publicly-Available Data on Internet Access and Equity

James Saxon
Primer on available Internet datasets and their limitations.
Dec 06, 2020
Insight

Measuring Your Home Network

James Saxon
Explanation of useful network measurements and how to test them on your home network.
Dec 07, 2020
Insight

Five Ways to Measure Internet Traffic

James Saxon
Five methods for measuring bandwidth consumption on a home network with the costs, strengths, and limitations of each.
Dec 09, 2020
Insight

Internet Access and Internet Equity

James Saxon
In this post, I present a “scorecard” of Internet access and equity, for the twenty largest metro regions in the...
Feb 21, 2022

The Initiative

The Internet Equity Initiative aims to realize equitable, resilient, and sustainable Internet solutions that benefit all communities
Mar 22, 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
Publication

GPS-Based Geolocation of Consumer IP Addresses

Nick Feamster, James Saxon
This paper uses two commercial datasets of IP addresses from smartphones to characterize the geography of IP address subnets from...
Oct 12, 2021

Measuring-the-performance-and-network-utilization-VCA

May 11, 2022