Switzerland (software)

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| developer = Electronic Frontier Foundation

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| latest preview version = 0.1.0

| latest preview date = 2009-05-05

| repo = {{SourceForge|switzerland|Switzerland}}

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| license = GNU General Public License

| website = {{URL|eff.org/testyourisp/switzerland}}

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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).{{cite web |url=https://www.eff.org/press/archives/2008/07/31 |title=EFF Releases "Switzerland" ISP Testing Tool |accessdate=2008-08-02 |author= |date=2008-07-31 |website=eff.org |publisher=Electronic Frontier Foundation}} 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.{{cite web |url=https://www.eff.org/testyourisp/switzerland |title=Switzerland Network Testing Tool |accessdate=2008-08-02 |author= |date= |website=eff.org |publisher=Electronic Frontier Foundation}}

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

{{Cite news

| title = On the net, all shall be equal

| newspaper = New Scientist

| pages = 23

| date = 2008-08-09

| url = https://technology.newscientist.com/article/mg19926685.700-on-the-web-all-traffic-shall-be-equal.html

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