Switzerland (software)

Infobox Software
name = Switzerland



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developer = Electronic Frontier Foundation
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latest preview version = 0.0.7a
latest preview date = 2008-08-13
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license = GPL
website = http://eff.org/testyourisp/switzerland

Switzerland is an open source network-monitoring utility developed and released by the Electronic Frontier Foundation.cite web |url=http://www.eff.org/press/archives/2008/07/31 |title=EFF Releases "Switzerland" ISP Testing Tool |accessdate=2008-08-02 |author= |date=2008-07-31 |work= |publisher=Electronic Frontier Foundation] Its goal is to monitor network traffic between two systems running Switzerland to see if the user's internet service provider is violating network neutrality, like Comcast does with the BitTorrent protocol.cite web |url=http://www.eff.org/testyourisp/switzerland |title=Switzerland Network Testing Tool |accessdate=2008-08-02 |author= |date= |work= |publisher=Electronic Frontier Foundation]

Switzerland was featured in the Technology section of an issue of "New Scientist" in August 2008. [Citation
title = On the net, all shall be equal
newspaper = New Scientist
pages = 23
date = 2008-08-09
url = http://technology.newscientist.com/article/mg19926685.700-on-the-web-all-traffic-shall-be-equal.html]

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* [http://eff.org/ Electronic Frontier Foundation]