Switzerland (software)

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Switzerland
Developer(s)Electronic Frontier Foundation
Preview release
0.1.0 / 2009-05-05
RepositorySwitzerland on SourceForge
Operating systemWindows, macOS, Linux
LicenseGNU General Public License
Websiteeff.org/testyourisp/switzerland

Switzerland (named after the European country of the same name) is an open-source network monitoring utility developed and released by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF).[1] Its goal is to monitor network traffic between two systems running the program to see if the user's Internet service provider is violating network neutrality, like Comcast did in 2007 with the BitTorrent protocol.[2]

Switzerland was featured in the Technology section of an issue of New Scientist in August 2008.[3]

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  1. ^ "EFF Releases "Switzerland" ISP Testing Tool". eff.org. Electronic Frontier Foundation. 2008-07-31. Retrieved 2008-08-02.
  2. ^ "Switzerland Network Testing Tool". eff.org. Electronic Frontier Foundation. Retrieved 2008-08-02.
  3. ^ "On the net, all shall be equal". New Scientist. 2008-08-09. p. 23.

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