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[Firefox Friday] FireTorrent - Download Torrents from Firefox

Thursday, December 18, 2008

This entry is part 1 of 3 in the series Firefox Friday As we all know, Opera supports download of torrent files within the browser eliminating the need of external torrent clients. Same is not true with Firefox. Fortunately, we now have an extension which lets us download .torrent files within Firefox. FireTorrent integrates BitTorrent into [...]

[How to] Test if Your ISP is Throttling your Torrent Speed

Monday, November 3, 2008

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ISPs are increasingly deploying a variety of middleboxes (e.g., firewalls, traffic shapers, censors, and redirectors) to monitor and to manipulate the performance of applications like peer-to-peer and Torrents. Most ISPs do not reveal the details of their network deployments to their customers. This knowledge is important to help users make a more informed choice of [...]

Speckly - The Simplest Way to Search Torrents

Thursday, July 17, 2008

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Speckly is a Google-like, ad-free torrent search site which strips all the unnecessary bittorrent-specific language from the results, and simply presents a long list of results, together with the number of complete and partial sources. This, in fact, is all you really need to find the torrents you need. The only problem, unfortunately, is that [...]