M-Lab Knowledge Base Internet Quality
6 articles
A guide for digital rights advocates, community broadband organizers, and civil society researchers using M-Lab data to document ISP behavior, support communities, and make evidence-based arguments.
A guide for policymakers, regulators, and government staff who want to use M-Lab data to understand broadband performance, inform policy decisions, and evaluate connectivity programs.
How M-Lab annotates measurements with geographic and network metadata, the accuracy and limitations of each annotation type, and how to use them correctly in analysis.
Why download speed alone is an incomplete picture of internet performance, and how M-Lab measures latency, packet loss, and working internet quality.
M-Lab enforces 40 tests per day per IP address. Learn what this means and how to work within the limit.
How to interpret percentile columns in M-Lab Monthly Stats data, including the counterintuitive polarity of latency and loss, and what p50 vs p95 tells you.