The Hidden Guide

µTorrent 2.0 Stable version Released

Posted on February 4, 2010 by MidaNo Comments

uTorrent 2.0 released today after lots of Beta and RC released and thousand of beta testers. uTorrent is the most popular and lightweight BitTorrent. and with the released of ver 2.0 gives us  the final stable release with many new features and improved user interface .

Release Notes:

• Added UDP tracker support!
• uTP has been improved significantly 1.8.5, with many bugs fixed and performance improvements. It can be found in the preferences as "Enable bandwidth management" (but don’t worry, you can still control caps!).
• The setup dialog has been overhauled to make it much easier to use and with a built-in speed test. More presets were added and it automatically scales settings for high-upload connections.
• A new transfer cap feature has been added to track bandwidth usage, along with graphs to show your usage.

Note – The program asks you to install Ask Toolbar which you can ignore during installation.

Download uTorrent 2.0

August Demonoid Invitation Giveaway (Closed)

Posted on August 6, 2009 by admin17 Comments

Back again with new Demonoid Invitation Giveaway this month we got more Invitations, and here is how you can participate, just make sure to use your real emil in the comment so i can send you the invitation code.

How to participate?

• Leave comment on this post and make sure you use your real email so i can send you the invitation if you won
• Subscribe to this blog via Email
• Stumble & comment on this post on the StumbleUpon (optional)
• If you have a blog you can write post about this giveaway and link to this post (optional)

Another Demonoid Invitation Giveaway (CLOSED)

Posted on May 22, 2009 by admin21 Comments

After my last Demonoid Invitation giveaway now i decided that i’ll giveaway free invitation for few torrent tracker every month. unfortunately there isn’t enough invitation for everyone so this is the reason i’m going to do this every month, starting from may 2009, and everyone can  participate in this contest i’ll choose only 10 winners every month.so if you didn’t get lucky this month you may do in the next moth.

How to participate?

1. Leave comment on this post and make sure you use email where i can send you the invitation if you win
2. Subscribe to this blog via Email
3. Stumble & comment on this post on the StumbleUpon (optional)
4. If you have a blog you can write post about this giveaway and link to this post (optional)

How To Bypass Your ISP And/or Your Country Restrictions

Posted on February 13, 2009 by admin49 Comments

“Site is blocked”, “the administrator has blocked this site”, “Error 403 Forbidden Unauthorized”. All of this is just example of the frustrated error messages you get if you were trying to access website that has been blocked, may be you at work and the administrator is blocking some cretin sites, or may be your ISP does, or may be more evil some Country restrictions and they has blocked almost all popular websites, sites they think its content does not follow there political view. or religion beliefs.

For example if you ever went or lived in chain you probably noticed that they has blocked so many sites there, another example in some Arab countries were they has blocked almost all pornographically websites, ok i understand that there is some sort of religions s beliefs that forbidden these kind of content, but blocking sites like youtub.com , or services lie VOIP, come on it’s really getting silly here, why would they do that?

It does not stop on that, some ISPs is manipulating BitTorrent traffic aka(throttling P2P traffic), the ongoing war between copyright pirates and authorities.

Net Neutrality is another form of Internet restriction that some authorities trying to do, later in 2008 comcast one of the most popular ISP in usa has limited the monthly bandwidth for its users, and put 250 GB monthly cap.

Anyway it really does not matter here why your ISP/country/work/school has limited access to some websites and services on the Internet, what is really important is how to Bypass this Restriction, let’s see how you can do this.

Proxy sites

One of the most popular methods to bypass Restriction and access blocked websites,But its limited which means you can only use proxy sites at work place, school, were only few websites has been blocked, there is nothing more proxy sites can do like bypass your ISP BitTorrent throttling, or unblock VOIP services, that is why its limited.

So if your ISP/Country has some Restriction on some websites, and service proxy sites is really poor option to bypass this Restriction, what you really need is some sort of way to bypass this restriction

VPN if you have never heard of it you going to love it why? because VPN allow you to completly bypass your ISP/Country Restriction, But first what does VPN means?

VPN is a computer network in which some of the links between nodes are carried by virtual circuits in  the Internet, in other words VPN is like tunnel to another network using the internet, so it allow you to virtual connect to another network using path and that path is carried on the internet.

But what this has to do with  bypass ISP Restriction ? right because VPN allow you to connect to another network using the internet as path or tunnel, you can use this to bypass your ISP Restriction, and your ISP can’t tell which sites or serivces you are using bsically because your just using tunnel to another network and doing other thins on that network, so you can broswe blocked websites, unblock serivce like VOIP, prevent your ISP from manipulating BitTorrent traffic.

It that all? no when it comes to VPN we must talk about security, depends on the VPN type some VPN has encryption 128-2048, this gives you Full anonymity online by hiding your real IP and Protection against your ISP, they really can’t tell what you doing online.

Benefits of using VPN?

• Assigns your computer a new IP address, hides your real IP to anonymize all web applications.
• Security for Hotspot Wireless Access Users (Wi-Fi) connection.
• Bypass Skype and other VOIP blocked in your area or by your ISP.
• Bypass blocked websites (that have blocked you or your country/geographical region).
• Security & anonymity with a secure encrypted connection between your computer and the Internet.
• Virtual Firewall — Attacks are often directed at a known IP address.
• Anonymizes you at work or at school even behind restrictive firewalls.
• Easy online ordering when you travel – Many order forms on the Internet will automatically block certain countries from even ordering.

So how much VPN costs? not really actually about $5 – 20 monthly depends on the VPN provider and the VPN type, Where can you find VPN providers? A great list of VPN services providers and nice comparison too .

There are many how can i choose? well i’v tried almost every VPN provider over the last two years, and i couldn’t find anyone better than StrongVPN not only they offer great VPN service but also they has great customers support to answer all your questions 24/7 support is something you can’t find with other providers.

Also they offer OpeVPN the amazing OpenVPN service offers 2048-bit strong encryption via SSL/TLS protocol, which is stronger and harder to your ISP to detect.

So if you ever considering buying VPN service i highly recommend that you buy StrongVPN.

How To Test if your ISP is manipulating BitTorrent traffic (throttling P2P traffic)

Posted on February 13, 2009 by admin1 Comment

Does your ISP throttling P2P traffic?, actually many ISP around world do, but of course not all of them

ISPs might be throttling P2P traffic without letting the users know about these practices. There are not many good tools available to test ISPs behavior and if they are throttling some kind of traffic. Google along with New America Foundation’s Open Technology Institute, the PlanetLab Consortium, and researchers came up with tool test If Your ISP Is Throttling BitTorrent Traffic, its called Measurement Lab, an open platform for researchers and also a set of tools for the average web user.

Through Measurement Labs (M-Labs) Google will provide researchers with 36 servers in 12 locations in the US and Europe, these servers will provide the accuracy and scalability for the tools researchers already working, like testing the connection speeds, ISP throttling behavior, various diagnostic tests etc. M-Labs will serve as a community platform, the data collected through M-Labs will be given back to the public so that others can build on the work.

There are 3 tools available right now. Access all the tools from Measurement Labs, and you can use all of them to test your connections.

1.Network Diagnostic Tool

As the name suggests Network Diagnostic Tool (NDT) provides speed and diagnostic test. Not only upload and download speeds but NDT also shows what if there are any problems like configuration or network problems.

2-Glasnost

Glasnost attempts to detect whether your Internet access provider is performing application-specific traffic shaping. Currently, you can test if your ISP is throttling or blocking BitTorrent. Tests for other applications will follow soon.

ISP Blocking around the world

If you take a look at the results map you will notice a high concentration of ISPs that are throttling Bittorrent traffic in the United States and Singapore.