Archive for the ‘Bittorrent’ Category

Comcast: Slower Internet Is the Future

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008

Comcast is well known for outrageously poor customer service, but seem to be taking steps to remedy the situation. One of their more successful and visible prongs of attack is the Comcastcares account on Twitter. Frank Eliason, the Comcast employee who is behind the account, is an extremely helpful and ...

Turn Bittorrent Files Into Clickable Downloads

Thursday, May 15th, 2008

I am a proponent of the Bittorrent protocol, but I find that when I try to describe the process of downloading a file via Bittorrent to someone their eyes glaze over because the number of steps just seems so cumbersome. Torrent2Exe is a free web utility that takes torrent ...

Are You Being Throttled?

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008

Check your throttled status effortlessly with Glasnost. It mimics Bittorrent traffic over your network connection to determine whether or not your internet service provider is throttling Bittorrent transfers. It accomplishes this by measuring the difference in speed between regular downloads (of porn, for example) and Bittorrent downloads, using ...