<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/e357979c-bf28-439c-a4bd-1bd43deab05f/58EC9A3A-1C63-4DC5-B858-22E23CB5FC53/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://lifehacker.com/5141758/measurement-lab-checks-if-your-connection-is-being-throttled" href="http://lifehacker.com/5141758/measurement-lab-checks-if-your-connection-is-being-throttled" style="font-size: 11px;">lifehacker.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://lifehacker.com/5141758/measurement-lab-checks-if-your-connection-is-being-throttled"><H1><A href="http://lifehacker.com/5141758/measurement-lab-checks-if-your-connection-is-being-throttled" linkindex="37" set="yes">Measurement Lab Checks if Your Connection is Being Throttled</A></H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://lifehacker.com/5141758/measurement-lab-checks-if-your-connection-is-being-throttled"><P><IMG width="494" height="184" src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/lifehacker/2009/01/mlab_cropped.png" />Google and a host of net-savvy partners have opened up a free set of web tools to help anyone determine if their net connection is blocking or throttling BitTorrent or otherwise limits their bandwidth.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://lifehacker.com/5141758/measurement-lab-checks-if-your-connection-is-being-throttled"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/lifehacker.com/img/8E0A8394-EF1C-40A3-A2A2-F11058CB0278" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://lifehacker.com/5141758/measurement-lab-checks-if-your-connection-is-being-throttled"><P>At the moment, three tools are available—when their servers aren't jammed up, and they seem to be pretty popular at the moment. 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