You will soon have the tools that will let you keep an eye on your ISPs. Yes, Google has rolled out new tools that will let you monitor the way your ISPs manage traffic. Well, the new tools will let you know if you're actually getting full value for what you're paying to your ISPs.

Google’s Measurement Labs (M-Labs), an open system to access its new Internet performance measurement tools, will make things easy for researchers and consumers.

In a blog post, the chief Internet evangelist of Google Vint Cerf, and the principal engineer of Google Stephen Stuart said, "Researchers are already developing tools that allow users to, among other things, measure the speed of their connections, run diagnostics, and attempt to discern if their ISP is blocking or throttling particular applications. These tools generate and send some data back and forth between the user's computer and a server elsewhere on the Internet. Unfortunately, researchers lack widely-distributed servers with ample connectivity. This poses a barrier to the accuracy and scalability of these tools."

On Wednesday, Google announced that it will host the tools on 37 servers in the U.S. and Europe. According to Google, with these tools, users can figure out what might be spoiling their broadband speed and they can find out if BitTorrent is being blocked or throttled by their ISPs.

Vint Cerf wrote, "M-Labs aims to address these problems. Over the course of early 2009, Google will provide researchers with 36 servers in 12 locations in the U.S. and Europe. All data collected via M-Labs will be made publicly available for other researchers to build on. M-Labs is intended to be a truly community-based effort, and we welcome the support of other companies, institutions, researchers and users that want to provide servers, tools or other resources that can help the platform flourish."

"Seems like the intention behind this is to give consumers a way to keep tabs on their provider and make sure that they're getting what they're paying for in terms of speed. Also, with these tools, consumers will supposedly be able to tell if particular high-bandwidth applications, like BitTorrent, are being constrained by their ISP. So if an ISP is limiting video downloads, for example, consumers can use the Google tool, figure it out and start a huge outcry, putting pressure on the ISP to stop," said Dan Olds, an analyst at Gabriel Consulting Group Inc.

Developed jointly by Google and New America Foundation's Open Technology Institute, the Planet Lab Consortium, academic researchers, Measurement Labs (M-Labs) has presently 3 tools, which can be used by researchers and interested parties to test their connection. The tools are in the initial stage of development, and M-Labs hopes to get more partners for the project.