Neubot

Neubot (the network neutrality bot) is a free software[1] Internet bot, developed and maintained by the Nexa Center for Internet and Society, that gathers network performance data useful to investigate network neutrality.[2]

Neubot
Developer(s)Nexa Center for Internet and Society, Simone Basso
Stable release
0.4.16.9 / October 30, 2013 (2013-10-30)
Repository
Written inPython
Operating systemCross-platform
TypeInternet bot
LicenseGPL
Websiteneubot.org

Description

Once installed on the user's computer, it runs in the background and periodically performs active transmission tests with servers hosted by the distributed Measurement Lab server platform (and, in future, with other instances of the software itself).[3] These transmission tests measure end-to-end network performance emulating different protocols (currently HTTP and BitTorrent) as well as transmitting and receiving "raw" data over TCP.[4] Performance are measured at application level as well as at TCP level (using Web100[5]). Measurements results are saved both locally (where a localhost-only web user interface allows users to browse them [6]) and on Measurement Labservers. They are collected for research purposes[7] and automatically published on the web[8][9][10] under Creative Commons Zero (public domain) allowing anyone to re-use them freely for the same purpose.

See also

Network Neutrality

References
  1. https://github.com/neubot/neubot/blob/master/COPYING Neubot GPL license
  2. http://www.neubot.org/faq#why-the-network-neutrality-bot Archived 2015-05-09 at the Wayback Machine FAQ 1.4: 'Why "the network neutrality bot"?'
  3. http://www.neubot.org/faq#what-is-neubot Archived 2015-05-09 at the Wayback Machine FAQ 1.1: 'What is Neubot?'
  4. "FAQ 1.7: What tests are implemented by the latest version?". Archived from the original on 2015-05-09. Retrieved 2012-12-31.
  5. http://www.neubot.org/neubot-0.4.15.5 Archived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine Neubot 0.4.15.5 announce mentioning the newly-added support for Web100
  6. http://www.neubot.org/faq#web-user-interface Archived 2015-05-09 at the Wayback Machine FAQ 7: Web User Interface
  7. https://github.com/neubot/neubot/blob/master/PRIVACY Neubot privacy policy
  8. http://www.neubot.org/data Archived 2015-05-03 at the Wayback Machine Neubot data repository
  9. http://www.measurementlab.net/data Measurement Lab data repository
  10. http://data.neubot.org/mlab_mirror/README Introduction to collected data
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