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Is Reliance broadband shaping torrent traffic?

Reliance is a well known ISP in India and is also one of the few ISP’s which offers FUP free plans to it’s customers. But still they cannot become as popular as BSNL and Airtel. Well the reason for this that they are intentionally shaping the web traffic using hardware equipment’s located at their back end. There are many reports from various Reliance users throughout the country on public forums that they are not getting the promised speeds while downloading content form torrents.

Reliance also produce films and whenever they release their movie, they are known to block all the file sharing websites and forces other ISP’s also to block the file sharing websites by issuing them the court order! This definitely causes a lot of trouble for legitimate users as they cannot share important files with their colleagues or family.

As Reliance provides FUP free plan, their networked is abused to a much greater extent which spoils of other legitimate users and gamers. Reliance is definitely not good for gamers as they are know to have huge problems with their routing to Indian and international servers.

Just recently Reliance user are experiencing lot of problems while opening twitter on their computers. Though this was resolved after few weeks. So i will suggest you to think twice before going with Reliance.

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Nvidia revealed Kepler based GTX 690 Dual Graphic card

Nvidia had recently announced the launch of their kepler based dual graphic card which will be as usually be called as GTX 690. It’s performance and other benchmark data is already available online because of the Nvidia’s Geforce Webcast in Shanghai, China.

Architecture and inside GTX 690

  • GTX 690 basically consist of two fully blown GK 104 cores.
  • This is the same core which is featured in GTX 680 also which holds the title of world’s fastest discrete graphic card presently.
  • Specs include –> 1536 * 2 CUDA cores, 256 CTU’s, 64 ROP units which is basically double of the single GTX 680 GPU.
  • GTX 690 uses Nvidia’s custom designed PLX switch rather than NF200 bridge which was used in their GTX 590 GPU for linking two on board chips in dual GPU.
  • NF 200 is limited only to PCIe 2.0 generation whereas PLX switches from Nvidia is compatible with 3rd generation PCIe technology also.
  • The new GTX 690 also features 256*2 bit wide bus and a bandwidth of 192 GB/s per chip.

Power

  • Well, low power consumption is one of the key features of Nvidia’s Kepler series and because of this GTX 690 has much lower TDP of 300 watt as compared to GTX 590.
  • Due  to lower power consumption, Nvidia has to down clock the cores of GTX 690 to 915 MHz.
  • It has two 8 pin power connectors which delivers power of 300 watt and PCIe slot delivers 75 watt also. So this makes 375 watt in total.

External of GTX 690

  • Here we can see specially designed chromium plates aluminium body for the GPU.
  • Two vapour chamber on each GPU same as in their previous dual GPU’s
  • Fan is located at the centre and is made of magnesium alloy for faster heat dissipation.

Ports

  • GTX 690 have 3 Dual link DVI ports and 1 mini display port which can support in total 4 simultaneous displays.

Pricing

  • This card is not yet launched to public but when will it be launched is still not fixed.
  • Indian launch of this GPU is also not confirmed. Irrespective of the fact that one cannot even find other kepler based GPU in local shops here.
  • GTX 680’s price floating around Rs. 30,000. So companies will price GTX 690 around Rs. 50,000

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Random stuttering in video game when played on a PC

cpu over heatingHere in this article i am basically referring to a problem which i am facing from past few days. While playing online multiplayer sessions in games like Bad Company 2 and Battlefield 3, i was facing a extremely heavy lag or you can say heavy stuttering. At hat particular time on cannot aim on their enemies and even they can’t walk on the field, everything looks to be jammed.

At the same i also open up info panel and saw that my ping is normal and stays around 90ms but than at the same i checked the bottom of my laptop and it was scorching hot to touch. After this i confirmed it by running the CPU load test and find out that it is really over heating and it under clock it self at this high temperature. This leads  to heavy lag during the game.

Than i had to open my laptop and cleans the dust out of it’s heat sink and now after cleaning it is running the same games without any lag. So dust is the main enemy of your computer. If you are playing on a laptop like me that have your laptop service after 6 months of time to prevent over heating and damage.

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Sony India releases ICS update for their previous generation Xperia mobiles

Sony India had recently announced the release of Android update for their previous generation of Xperia handsets. Initially they had already released the ICS update for some of the European countries and this process of update to latest Android OS for Xperia based phones was started on 15th April, 2012.

Also it would be interesting to notice that in first round only 3 Xperia handsets that is Xperia Neo V, Xperia Arc S and Xperia Ray will get the ICS update and other will get the same after few months. The updated version of Android would be ICS 4.0.3

There is also a precautionary advice from Sony on their blog that in spite of their best efforts in porting ICS to their Xperia phones, there might occur a situation on which the overall stability of the phone may decrease due to less RAM available for the overall operation of the OS . As per the official requirement, Android ICS needs at least 1 GB RAM to run smoothly but most of the previous generation Xperia’s including top of the line Arc S is equipped with just 512 MB of RAM. So my advice is that thing twice before updating your stable android version.