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Darned Optimum
Ever since Optimum Online (a New York City company) took over Bresnen (a local area company here in Wyoming that did a good job), our TV service has been wonkie, our Internet has been intermittent and our phone service scratchy and sometimes not working at all. They’ve also been throttling BitTorrent, which I use to…
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How To Bypass BitTorrent Throttling, step-by-step settings
A lot of ISPs throttle BitTorrent traffic: Charter, AT&T, Qwest, ComCast, CableVision, and many more. There’s a full list HERE. There are lot of tutorials out there on bypassing the evils of throttling. Some work, some don’t, some work for a while then stop working when the ISP figures it out. Below are step-by-step settings…
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How to speed up ANY website, especially WordPress websites
This is a VERY simple webmaster trick to speed up the loading of ANY website you create. It is particularly noticeable in WordPress. Simply add this line of code anywhere in the .htaccess file: AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/plain text/xml text/css application/javascript application/x-javascript application/x-httpd-php application/rss+xml application/atom_xml text/javascript That will enable compression of data sent to from…