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ISP is Limiting your Download Speed ?
ISP is Limiting your Download Speed ?
Sometimes speed seems to go down while you are watching videos on YouTube or are trying to download files through a torrent client, even though you have a fairly good Internet connection at home and regular websites load pretty quickly in your browser.
If you observe such a speed pattern quite frequently, chances are that your ISP could be rate limiting your traffic for certain bandwidth intensive operations. To give you an example, if your regular download speed is 100 kB/s, YouTube videos could be streaming at a speed of 30 kB/s due to rate limiting by the ISP.
Is your ISP is limiting your download speeds?
You can run the Glasnost test in your browser to determine whether or not your ISP is following any such tactic to manipulate your download speeds for specific sites.
The test uses a Java applet to compare your regular download speed against the speed at which Flash videos get streamed to your system. Other than videos, it can also compare the download speed for email attachments (via POP and IMAP), normal HTTP based file transfers, torrents and binary downloads from Usenet servers.
You should consider running these tests at different times of the day since some ISPs may be limiting speeds only during peak hours.
Note: Check & Stop any other downloads that might be running in the background for more accurate results
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Websites and Words That Are Blocked in China
Websites and Words That Are Blocked in China
There are generally two kinds of internet censorship in China – they either completely block a website from users or they instruct local search engines to modify search results for certain keywords.
For instance, sites like IMDB and BBC are inaccessible from within China and some of them may not even appear in the search results of local search engines like Baidu or Sohu. The next form of censorship is keyword based. If you search for a censored keyword (say “Human Rights”) in a Chinese search engine, you’ll see few or no results.
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Hacking Yahoo Messenger & Getting IP
Hacking Yahoo Messenger & Getting IP
While you are chatting through yahoo messenger, Yahoo will hide the IP addresses of all the computers that are connected through the yahoo messenger application to the chat room.So it is not possible to directly find out the IP of the person you want to hack.
Then how to get the IP address?
Yes it is still possible to hack the IP address during the Yahoo messenger chat.
While you are chatting via yahoo messenger the communication between you and the person you want to hack, takes place indirectly via Yahoo server and not directly.It is not possible to hack Yahoo messenger directly to get the IP address. So to hack his IP, you must establish a direct communication with him/her.
So,how to do this ?
It’s easy.
Just start chatting with the person (Whom you want to Hack) via Yahoo messenger. During the process of chatting send him a big file. Now the file transfer takes place directly between your computer and the victim’s computer(via yahoo messenger application).
So now, you are ready to go. Here’s the step-by-step process to hack Yahoo messenger and get the IP address of the person.
Type netstat -n in Command Prompt.
The pic given below shows netstat results of my computer. {When I was not chatting}
Here local address is your own IP and the foreign address is the IP address of the recipient with whom you are connected via yahoo messenger (There may be multiple recipients and hence multiple foreign addresses).
Now send him the file.
Check the output by typing the command netstat -n
Assume the output is something like this.
TCP 127.0.0.10:5101 124.55.23.11:1246 ESTABLISHED
Here 124.55.23.11 is the IP address of the person with whom you are chatting and 1246 is the port number where connection is established.That’s It! You have now hacked Yahoo messenger to get his IP address.
Once you hack Yahoo messenger and get his IP address you can use any of the Remote Administration tools or perform NETBIOS HACKING.
NOTE: Some times there are chances where in the file transfer gets encrypted (takes place via yahoo server itself).So in this case the above hack may fail to work.
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Is Your PC Connecting To Websites Without Your Knowledge
Is Your PC Connecting To Websites Without Your Knowledge
If you are worried that some programs on your PC are secretly making connections to websites in the background, here’s a quick tip that uses a simple DOS command to detect and prevent such suspicious activity:
1. Type cmd in your Windows Run box.
2. Type netstat -b 5 > activity.txt and press Enter. After 2 minutes, press Ctrl+C.
3. Type activity.txt on the command line to open the log file in Notepad.
The file activity.txt will have a log of all process that made a connection to the Internet in the last two minutes. It will also show which process connected to which website in this time. And not just the web browsers (like iexplore.exe or opera.exe), the log will also show your IM clients, download managers, email programs or any software that requires a net connection.
Scroll though the activity.txt file and look for any process names or website addresses that you are not aware of.
If you track one , go to the Task Manager (or Process Explorer) to find the location of the executable file on your computer and eliminate the threat.
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Speed Up Browsing
Speed Up Browsing
When you connect to a web site your computer sends information back and forth. Some of this information deals with resolving the site name to an IP address, the stuff that TCP/IP really deals with, not words. This is DNS information and is used so that you will not need to ask for the site location each and every time you visit the site. Although Windows XP and Windows XP have a pretty efficient DNS cache, you can increase its overall performance by increasing its size. You can do this with the registry entries below:
| Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Dnscache\Parameters] "CacheHashTableBucketSize”=dword:00000001 “CacheHashTableSize”=dword:00000180 “MaxCacheEntryTtlLimit”=dword:0000fa00 “MaxSOACacheEntryTtlLimit”=dword:0000012d |
Copy the code & Paste in a Notepad.
Save it as dnscache.reg
Merge it into the registry.
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Browse without a Browser
Browse without a Browser & that too in the Desktop Background !
Just write it in a notepad the following
| <html> <body> <iframe src="http://www.cyberkgb.wordpress.com" width="100%" height="100%"> </body> </html> |
Remove Spaces in the Code
Save it as abc.html [say]
Now right clik on the desktop & Open Properties. Browse & Go to desktop & select the abc.html as Background Image.
Now with your net connections on you can easily surf this site in desktop background.
In order to retain the original jst goto Start> ContolPanel> display> & here change the Desktop Background Image.
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Increase Connection Limits in IE8
Registry tweak to increase Connection Limits in IE8
You can download 6 files at a time with Internet Explorer 8. it is higher than Internet explorer 7. Still you can get it to do better. by using simple simple registry tweak you can increase the number of files that can be downloaded simultaneously to 8 in Internet Explorer 8.
1. Open up Notepad
Copy below string and paste it into notepad:
| Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Internet Settings] |
3. One thing to take note here. Once you have copied the string to notepad, delete both ” (double quote). Without doing so could cause the value fail to be added into registry due to the double quote copy from the webpage is different from what you type manually. Save the notepad as “IncreaseConIE8.reg”.
4. Double click the registry file, continue with UAC prompt and click OK to confirm you wish to perform the action.
Note: Please donot try if you are not an system expert. Doing so, unknowingly might Make your OS malfunction permanently.
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Block Certain Websites
Block Certain Websites from Children.
To block websites on your home computer without any software, here’s the trick.
Step 1: Type the following text in Run:
notepad c:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
Step 2: You will see a new notepad window on your screen containing some cryptic information. Just go to the last line of the file, hit the enter key and type the following:
127.0.0.1 xxx.com
127.0.0.1 abc.com
127.0.0.1 xyz.com
Save the file and exit. That’s it. None of the above sites will now open on your computer.
For some systems the code is:
127.0.0.1 xxx.com
127.0.0.2 abc.com
127.0.0.3 xyz.com
You can block as many websites as you like with the above technique. If you want to remove the ban later, open the same file as mentioned in Step 1 and delete the above lines.
Note: Works only in IE & Firefox (version 2.0 & below).
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Make IE8 Run Faster
Make IE8 Run Faster
Microsoft has recently released the new browser Internet Explorer version 8 and IE 8 has won the hearts of many people with its new features. I must admit I also have been using Firefox before that primarily because of all the features were better in Firefox along with its addons.
Internet Explorer 8 has good list of features as mentioned earlier and also has more speed than its earlier version IE7. IE8 is facing stiff competition with other browsers like Mozilla Firefox.But Microsoft has taken tremendous amount of effort to bring the standards in IE8 as they have been trying with Windows 7 also.
IE8 is indeed faster than Firefox but its too hard to notice the difference. So the browsing speed of IE8 has undergone some major changes and yet with a simple changes you can increase the speed even better.
So, to increase your IE8 speed much more:-
1. Go to Start > Run
2. Open the command prompt with admin rights (type cmd in Run).
Type the following command
| regsvr32 actxprxy.dll |
The following message will come up:
Now just restart your system and see the difference.
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"Network Connections" Icons Missing ?
“Network Connections” Icons Missing ? Network Connections Folder is Empty !
Problems:
1. You can’t connect to the internet
2. Network Connections folder is empty
3. Local Area Connections (LAN) icon on taskbar missing
4. Can’t connect to Wireless connections (icon also missing)
Solution:
This thing happens when one of the three files below are missing on your computer:
1. netshell.dll
2. netcfgx.dll
3. netman.dll
Download those files if needed and place them on c:\windows\system32\ folder. After copying the files you need to register them. Click Start>Run>CMD and then type the following command (Hit enter after each command).
| regsvr32 netshell.dll regsvr32 netcfgx.dll regsvr32 netman.dll |
Your Network Connections will now be back to normal.
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