1. •    What is HostView?
   

2. •    Why would I install HostView?
   

3. •    What does HostView collect?
   

4. •    What are our commitments to protect your privacy?
   

5. •    What about the performance impact on your machine?
   

6. •    How can you help?
   

Why would I install HostView?

There are many reasons to install HostView:

1. 1.    Altruism: As a good citizen of the network measurement community, you know that data is invaluable for a wide range of research, and that to obtain good data we all need to help each other out. Support us now, and we'll support you when your need arises. Traces collected with HostView will help us understand end-user perception of network performance and will guide our design of algorithms that automatically diagnose performance problems.
   

1. 2.    Curiosity: HostView can give you feedback about your PCs network behavior. You can learn how much network bandwidth your machine consumes plus the bandwidth performance of individual applications.