Tag: THROTTLE

digg_url = 'http://downloadsquad.switched.com/2009/12/31/firefox-throttle-keeps-your-browsers-bandwidth-usage-under-cont/'; While the guys over at UselessApplications.com claim their software is "of no interest to most people," I've got dozens of customers here who would love to have me bolt Firefox Throttle onto their web browser. See, I live and work way out in the boonies - about 6 ...

Google has joined with the Open Technology Institute to help identify which ISPs are restricting peer-to-peer traffic, launching M-Lab to help users discover whether or not they're being affected. One of the tools M-Lab will use is Glasnost, a java applet that initiates a torrent transfer between a user's pc and the remote testing server. It compares the results to the speed of a normal transfer ...

Ever need to manage or monitor your web browser's bandwidth usage? Say, for example that you want to send a large file via FTP, but want to do some web browsing while you wait. You don't want your web browser to eat up your bandwidth, but aside from avoiding media-rich web sites, what can you do? You could install Firefox Throttle or IE Throttle. These two browser plugins let you cap the upload ...