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Nicole Sullivan: “Design Fast Websites”

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A great presentation by Nicole Sullivan. I’ve watched this twice now!

Posted by Nick on February 21st, 2009 :: Filed under css

Virgin Media ISP does not traffic shape BitTorrent

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The Glasnost Tool performs a series of tests to work out whether your ISP traffic shapes BitTorrent traffic. It seems that Virgin Media ADSL doesn’t (see the results), which comes as a surprise but is a good thing.

Posted by Nick on February 1st, 2009 :: Filed under general

Using G1 phone’s 3G connection on laptop

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I am successfully using my G1′s 3G connection via my laptop. I followed the instructions on Graham Stewart’s website. I didn’t have instant success so googled for more info. I needed to turn go into Firefox’s config settings by putting about:config into the address bar. Ignoring the warning, I changed the setting for network.proxy.socks_remote_dns from false to true, then restarted the browser. Success!

I visited Speedtest.net to see what sort of speeds I was getting. Here are the results:

332 Kbs downloads, 332 Kbs uploads from T-Mobile International UK Limited ISP</code>

Not too bad!

In comparison, here is the connection speed via Virgin’s ADSL, not their cable broadband service:

6768 Kbs downloads, 854 Kbs uploads from Virgin Media ISP

Obviously my ADSL speeds are much faster, although the upload speed is only 2.5 times faster. The download speed is 20 times faster.

I’m pretty happy with my G1 so far. It came with a crap pair of headphones though, so on eBay I just purchased a 3 in 1 USB and 3.5mm adaptor. The adaptor has a 3.5mm headphone socket and two mini-usb ports. This means I can charge it whilst listening to audio. The adaptor was listed on eBay for £10.49 but I made an offer of £8 and it was accepted almost immediately.

I’ll report back if the adaptor doesn’t live up to expectations.

Posted by Nick on February 1st, 2009 :: Filed under phone
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