Are you experiencing slow (0 to 20 kb/s) download speeds on programs such as bittorrent or emule, even though you have a high speed internet line? Then your bandwidth is probably being throttled. In recent years, many broadband companies have taken up Packet Shaping technology to throttle bandwidth. This technology basically scans the passing data to see if it is p2p or not, and limits the ports (kind of like...

You’ve made the decision to purchase broadband internet access for your home or office. What’s your next step? Do you contact your local provider directly and sign up? This is certainly and option, but one that may not be in your best interest. Contacting one local provider may not be your best option because it limits your choices. It limits the specials available to you. You see, the competition...

Okay so you already have Broadband Internet so why change providers? Well for one thing the chances are that if you’ve had Broadband for 12-18 months then changing providers can not only save you money but also greatly improve your Broadband speed. To put this into perspective a 1Mb link today cost around the same you paid for just 256k a year ago. If you’re coming up to the end of your contract...

What is the best way for me to go about getting high speed internet in my house? I searched on line and through the yellow pages, only to find that there are an uncountable number of high speed internet options out there. However, as I sifted through all of the consumer sites and user reviews, I found that SBC DSL may, indeed, be the best bet for bringing high speed internet to my home office. According to many...

Do you feel the need for high speed Internet access and simply cant get it? Not every home has access to DSL or Cable broadband Internet access services. In fact over 30 million people still cant receive high speed Internet access. The costs of setting up DSL or cable access throughout the country, to each home, are in the billions of dollars. There are many promises that DSL or cable is coming, but when....

Besides wearing his underwear outside, SuperMan is also a good competitor of the most powerful man in the universe. The other competitors being Batman, Sipderman, He-Man, Phantom, Arnold Schwarzenegger and George Bush. Everybody wants to have supernatural powers to push themselves a bit more that what ordinary men like you and me. The legendary researcher Mr. Shivapratap once said “Speeds Kills, But Thrills”....

In last couple of years Linux has established itself very well in the server market.However, when it comes to desktops most people still prefer other operating systems over linux. This article talks about the various advantages of linux as a desktop and specifically talks about Linux as a desktop for developers and system administrators. Unlike other advocacy articles, no stress would be given to the fact that...

If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas. – George Bernard Shaw The computer world was similar to all of us having an apple each till some time back. And then the wise men from the industry made networks. Ideas started flowing...

Do you remember the days? Firing up your 200Mhz turbo PowerPC, dialling up using your 56k modem, waiting an age for your hotmail page to show up, waiting some more to check your e-mails only to have your connection die just as you hit the send button! How times change. It’s funny, once you’ve used broadband you quickly forget how painful the dial up connection was. I used to run my business on dial...

Who hasnt heard about the internet? No one! Unless, of course, you have been living in a cave for the past decade! The internet is the crowning achievement of the Information Age (which is what we call this age we live in). It has completely revolutionized how we communicate and how we live. But what exactly is this thing we call the internet? In a nutshell, the internet is the interconnection of computers...