of diagnostic data that can assess factors such as latency, packet loss, congestion, out-of-order delivery, network path and bottlenecks on the end-to-end connectivity between client to server.

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M-Lab’s added value is both methodological and institutional. Founded and administered by a consortium of non-governmental organizations, private companies and academic institutions, including New America Foundation’s Open Technology Institute, PlanetLab, and Google, M-Lab is an open data platform focused on the collection of network measurements related to real-world broadband connectivity, and is not in itself a human rights or political cause. M-Lab’s data is both non-partisan and widely-accepted, having been used by telecommunications regulators and development agencies in Austria, Cyprus, the European Commission, Greece and the United States. With the inclusion of NDT as a connectivity diagnostic test in version 2.0 of the Bittorrent file-sharing client $\mu$Torrent, M-Lab gained a significant increase in NDT measurements and a wider audience of users[@blog:utorrent]. Since 2009, M-Lab has collected over 725 Terabytes of data based on around 200,000 tests conducted per day. More relevant to our purposes, in the month of January 2013, M-Lab collected 2,925 tests from 2,158 clients from Iran that we 