Is my torrent download slow !!!!

There are three kinds of death in this world.
There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's being off the network.
~Guy Almes

Basic concept of torrent is to use it for sharing files which are not copyrighted ... specially videos created by individual persons... but like we all know, it is also used for sharing copyrighted materials like sotwares and movie !!! ... errr ... but its not the topic of discussion here .....

Have you ever feel like, you are having super fast internet connection but still you get very low download speed for torrents ?? Well ,its probably because your ISP is throttling your torrent download !!!!
Well ... common practice to do so is somewhat like this ..... Like we all know , torrent is a pear to pear (p2p) application in which each user upload and download data with each other. Now whenever we want to download anything user send message to another user that have that thing for example a video file. And in its response that another user sends acknowledgment for connection. And then data transfer is done. And here come the play of ISPs ( or can say FOUL play !!! ) . Some ISP send a message to that use who has requested that file , but that looks like it comes from the other computer, telling it to stop communicating. But neither message originated from the other computer — it comes from ISP. If it were a telephone conversation, it would be like the operator breaking into the conversation, telling each talker in the voice of the other: "Sorry, I have to hang up. Good bye."!!!! ( huh ?? .. isn't technology wonderful ??? ) ... Well ISP uses these sort of mal-practice to save bandwidth cost. Like we know , they have some particular size of bandwidth , and if torrent downloader people just keep occupied most of that bandwidth then obviously other users will have to suffer from lower speed , so to provide good service ISP may need to buy more bandwidth or throttle these downloader !! .. now this 1st choice will cost lot to that ISP but the "2nd" choice , will be cheap ... so they prefer to throttle these guys !!!

Well , well known ISP "Comcast" , USA's 2nd largest ISP !! has been found guilty for this foul play .... comcast was using same technique to throttle bittorrent downloads including eDonkey and Gnutella networks !! which is illegal according to FCC laws .... now FCC guys have taken this issue very seriously due to large number of complaints and comcast has been charged for this sort of discrimination ... well .. the FCC is planning to fine Comcast .... ( from one source this value is being said , about $195,000 per subscriber ..as it have about 9 million subscriber ... this value about to reach near $1.77 trillion !!! )... well... its sure that comcast will find "some" way to get out of it ... but still it will be an example for ISPs who are trying to throttle specific kind of applications in future ....
It has been also rumor of other ISPs like , Varizon and AT&T is also applying same "tactics" to prevent excess use of their bandwidth ...
hmmm.... if you think your ISP is throttling your torrent download , you can make sure with help of this site ....

for bittorrent ...

for azures ...


That's it ....

Happy Torrenting !!!! ( err .. of course ... only for "legal" stuffs !!! )


P.S. .... according to recent news , comcast has stopped its foul play , and hence it may be able to escape fine of FCC !!!

Want "MAC" style dock ??

"What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness."
-Tolstoy

Guys who have seen MAC's OS X or other versions , must be knowing that "dock" that they have on their screen. Basically its a bunch of shortcuts placed together with fancy animation. But it looks "cool" !!! There are couple of softwares available which makes same dock for you windows users ....

• Object Dock :- ObjectDock acts both as a task manager and a program launcher. Users can customize the look of each item on the dock and set various animation options for when the mouse rolls over an item on the dock. The program is very easy to configure.

• Rocket Dock :- RocketDock is a smoothly animated, alpha blended application launcher. It provides a nice clean interface to drop shortcuts on for easy access and organization. Now with added Taskbar support your minimized windows can appear as icons on the dock. This allows for better productivity and accessibility.

I have Whole Universe on my Desktop !!!

Well, not actually !!! ( do you think it can be really on my desktop !!) .... It's a simulation software , "Celestia" ... Its a real time simulator means , it will show current position of planets and start in real time !!!



More about it ...

Celestia is a space simulation that allows you to travel within the solar system, out to the stars, and beyond the Milky Way galaxy. Possible destinations include over 100,000 stars, nearly one hundred solar system destinations, and sixty recently-discovered extrasolar planets. Celestia uses OpenGL to render realistic real-time animations of space travel. Google earth's newer version includes this feature but still they "miss" something that Celestia have ....

try by your self and see the difference ...

Surf with Style !!!

Its all about looks !!! this is AT&T's new web browser "POGO" .... well its just beta and not available for all peoples ... ( remember gmail ?? ) ...


Fortunately , i got invitation for my request to try the beta edition. So here is a bit of review about that browser by ME !!!

First thing that you will notice about it is , super vista kind of look !!! errr ... as a common trend , now a days software have vista look by default.... but actually this browser is based on Mozilla's technology. So at some places this browser reminds of me my favorite one ...... any guess ?? ... yaa.. its "firefox" .... for example this "option menu",


Actually POGO is kind of visual browser, I mean it shows every thing visually that makes it different from, IE or firefox .

It has some cool features like , visual history .... yaaa.... you read it right .... we can even see our browsing history visually !!! And can nevigate through it easily ...


How many homepages we can have ??? Do you ever feel that what if you can have more then 1 homepage ?? well .... pogo has it !!! in springboard you can keep as many home pages as you like to have !!!!


Another fine feature is , visual bookmarks .. just like simple bookmarks, but this bookmarks keep image of that page so that , we don't even need to read the name of that bookmark. That's the coolest feature i guess ... ( may be because i am lazy to go though reading that bookmakrs!!)


what if you have lots of bookmarks and you just forgot the name of site that you are looking for ?? well, if you have remembered even any part of it then "pogo find" can help to get things done !!! now you'r talking boy .....

But due to heavy system requirements makes this browser a little improper for low end machines.

i have got this browser just a couple of days agao .. and its really tempting , so i can't stop my self using it ....