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Publications and working research papers related to the Internet Equity Initiative
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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

Internet Inequity in Chicago: Adoption, Affordability, and Availability

Tarun Mangla, Udit Paul, Arpit Gupta, Nicole Marwell, Nick Feamster
A study of Internet equity in Chicago that considers disparities in Internet availability, affordability, and adoption across urban communities.
Aug 08, 2022
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Benchmarks or Equity? A New Approach to Measuring Internet Performance

Ranya Sharma, Tarun Mangla, James Saxon, Marc Richardson, Nick Feamster, Nicole Marwell
A new approach to measuring Internet performance that rests on comparisons of multiple performance metrics across geographies.
Aug 03, 2022
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What Can We Learn from Selected, Unmatched Data: Measuring Internet Inequity in Chicago

James Saxon, Dan A. Black
By integrating a “big” dataset of Speedtest Intelligence from Ookla that measures Internet performance and income data from the American...
May 05, 2022
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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