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Nexa Center for Internet & Society | Il centro Nexa è un centro di ricerca del Dipartimento di Automatica e Informatica del Politecnico di Torino. How to Test if Your ISP is Throttling Your Internet Connection. We’ve all heard the rumors, and even seen occasional evidence. Some Internet service providers slow down certain types of traffic, like BitTorrent traffic. Other ISPs slow down their customers’ connections if they download too much data in a month. But does your ISP do any of this? It’s hard to tell. You have to run various tests to see if anything look unusual. BitTorrent Traffic Shaping Let’s start with one of the more common scenarios: is your ISP slowing down your BitTorrent traffic? Neubot is a useful tool for testing BitTorrent traffic shaping and monitoring it over time. To install it, visit the Neubot page and click the “Windows” link. After opening the Neubot interface, click the “Privacy” tab, allow the options under Privacy dashboard, and click “Save”.

This data provides a picture of traffic shaping on different Internet service providers across the Internet, and collecting it is the reason for Neubot’s existence. Next, select “bittorrent” from the Test box and click “Go”. Krebs on Security. M-Lab Tests - M-Lab. M-Lab hosts a number of measurement tests, allowing you to check for everything from network speed and latency to blocking and throttling. Explore them below, and run a test to learn more about your connection. All tests hosted on M-Lab only perform active measurements. This means that tests only run when people decide to run them. They do not passively monitor your connection. M-Lab hosted tests do not download or upload files to or from your device. Instead tests measure the way in which the network responds to a synthetic stream of data that is generated by the individual test specifically for the purpose of measurement. All data collected will be made publicly available, including the IP addresses that users use to connect to the test.

Please review M-Lab’s Privacy Policy before initiating any measurement test and contact us at privacy@measurementlab.net if you have any questions regarding these terms. Below are a few of our most Frequently Asked Questions about M-Lab tests. SamKnows.com. Open Broadcaster Software - Index. A/I :: Home. Comparison of file hosting services.

Gnucleus. 2Peer - The Private Internet Has Arrived. Are Your Running Microsoft Windows? The NSA Has Backdoor Access ~ Bauer-Power Media. In a chilling, yet somehow unsurprising report I read on Monday it turns out that no matter how well you think you've locked down your Windows workstation or server, the NSA can still easily get into it. Why? Because Microsoft has been building backdoor's into their operating system since Windows 95. From WND: The National Security Agency has backdoor access to all Windows software since the release of Windows 95, according to informed sources, a development which follows the insistence by the agency and federal law enforcement for backdoor “keys” to any encryption, according to a report in Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin. Having such “keys” is essential for the export of any encryption allowed under U.S. export control laws to foreign users. ...Computer security specialists say that the Windows software driver used for security and encryption functions contains unusual features which give NSA that backdoor access.

These security specialists have identified the driver as ADVAPI.DLL. I Love Free Software || Free Software. Bossie Awards 2012: The best open source applications | InfoWorld. Encrypted Phone Calls. Download Linphone | Linphone, an open-source video sip phone. The 30 Best Torrent Sites of 2014 - a Visual Guide. 1. Kick Ass Torrents This site is a favorite with a growing community. The interface is a distinctive earth color, and the search results display in a useful format of columns, including torrent health. The best part of Kick Ass Torrents is their comment and feedback system... the user community watches the quality of torrents, and offers their recommendations and warnings. 2.

Torlock is special. 3. Isohunt is reborn! 4. SeedPeer is a very large database of over 3 million torrent files. 5. This site has a Tonga country domain name, but certainly offers plentiful metasearching of movies and music in English and Spanish. VCDQ.com is technically not a torrent site... rather, it is a verification site that employs a committee of serious users to confirm torrents. 7. Is the largest known database of torrents today. 8. At over 4.7 million torrents, TorrentHound is one of the largest players in the torrent P2P game. 9. 10. This service is another example of clean and simple interface style. Individuals. Prodigy (online service)

Prodigy Communications Corporation (Prodigy Services Corp., Prodigy Services Co., Trintex) was an online service that offered its subscribers access to a broad range of networked services, including news, weather, shopping, bulletin boards, games, polls, expert columns, banking, stocks, travel, and a variety of other features. Initially, subscribers using personal computers accessed the Prodigy service by means of POTS or X.25 dialup. For its initial roll-out, Prodigy supported 1200 bit/s modems.

To provide faster service and to stabilize the diverse modem market, Prodigy offered low-cost 2400 bit/s internal modems to subscribers at a discount. The company claimed it was the first consumer online service, citing its graphical user interface and basic architecture as differentiation from CompuServe, which started in 1979 and used a command line interface. The service was presented using a graphical user interface. To control costs and raise revenue, Prodigy took two separate actions.

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