There are several ways where you can tweak Xunlei 迅雷 for better download speed. The things that you can do to speed up your Thunder Xunlei download speed are as following:

1. Port Forwarding the ports that stated in your xunlei for both TCP and UDP. To see what’s your TCP and UDP ports are of your Xunlei, go to tools and then option, go to BT and look for the ports(the words are in chinese). For guide of port forwarding, visit www.portforward.com.

2. Uncheck UPnP under the same place(tools -> option -> BT).

3. Set your upload speed below the speed you can get. For example, if your package support 512kbps of upload speed, set it to 40-45kb/s.

4. DOWNLOAD ONE FILE AT A TIME. This is the most obvious tweak. You may see a great change of speed after you stop a several tasks and let only one of them run it.

5. Since it work as a http header, some people claim that forwarding port 80, 8080 and 21 are the best because there is no other http browser using ports beside these 3 ports. I personally don’t feel any differences of this tweak.

6. If you are using Windows XP, set your TCP half open connection to around 100 so that more connections are allowed to connect through your pc. Google “TCP half open connection” for more details.

Good Luck and enjoy downloading!

To prevent any unnecessary circumstances related to law, I hereby claim that this post is written for legal purposes.

Do you smoke? I don’t.

Releasing Stress vs. Health
Is releasing stress more important than your health? What do you think? Different people may have different views. You can’t always control your fate and destiny. For example, a person who don’t smoke may die in an accident, who know? That’s destiny. So, many smokers think that smoking may shorten your life span but you enjoy it and it’s worth it. This statement sometimes is not accepted by non-smokers. They tend to claim that those struggling for stress releasing are in situation of avoiding their problems. That’s a false way of thought, they said. Even if we can’t control the overall of our destiny or fate, it’s not right to just giving up your health by smoking. Sometimes you may think it is just a little problem. But, we have to do it in the right way so that we don’t regret about it.
Do things that don’t make yourself regret. Don’t smoke! or Stop smoking!

Watch this! It may help you to stop your smoking habit:
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Yes! we have no choice but to love Streamyx!
If you are a subscriber of ~~ streamyx, you should know how we, the users of TM Net Streamyx feel when we are downloading through torrent. Torrent is totally legal for everyone to use, as long as the materials you upload or download are not illegally copied. But, I believe nobody will care about this. So, lets leave this aside.

Speed? Throttling?
Speed, speed and speed! Everyone wants speed! But for us, the Streamyx users are not getting the speed we want. It’s ok if we take consideration of our economy. We are unfortunately unable to afford the higher technology. We understand it. But, please don’t throttle us… (Based what I know, throttle means something like blocking you from p2p connection.)

How slow you are when you are torrent-ing?
I personally get 1 to 10kbps using Bitcomet, Azureus, utorrent and BitTorrent. How about you? I’m not sure whether you get better speed or not because the possibility for them to throttle you is extremely depending on your location. They throttle the users mostly from crowded place as their bandwidth of that area is not able to support all users.

Best Torrent Client?
There is nothing that is the best. But for us who get throttled by our ISP, 迅雷(xunlei) or Thunder is the best solution to download faster!

How does 迅雷(xunlei) or Thunder works?
(Based on what I understand about this software) Xunlei connects to peers using fake http header, unlike other torrent client which connect to peers directly. Since it works this way, the connection is no longer a p2p connection. It is the same as you download something from a source. For Xunlei, a peer is equal to a source, thus it can connect to many sources for one task. This concept can bypass the thrrotling of your ISP.

Weaknesses of Xunlei
The speed is extremely unstable. It’s all depend on the task itself. If there are more sources, it would be more stable. How unstable it is? For example, when you have 100kbps for a task, it can sometimes have a sudden drop to 2kbps or lower. Why is this happen? I’m still not sure about this. But, I guess that a task might sometimes experience some file transfer pausing during the process. Thus, the speed might be affected.

TRY IT OUT!!
Download it from Xunlei.com.

To prevent any unnecessary circumstances related to law, I hereby claim that this post is written for legal purposes.

For those who know chinese words, I would like to share this with you. Oh man… This is incredible, extremely creative and amazing… The creator of this video is almost a genius. He is very creative! The lyrics, with consideration of the music are almost perfect. I have made the loudest laugh in my life after watching this.
Hey you! Watch it! Don’t miss it out!
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This has already been shown in alvinlife.com a year ago. But, it is still funny for me when I viewed through my old files this morning. So, take a look and laugh!
Laughing Your Way To A Healthier You.
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To all my loyal readers, especially for Lum, Dong or whoever else likes this blog, I would like to let you know that my status currently is quite busy as I’m having my study in APIIT college.

So, I will try my best in writing one post each day to let you fulfill your free time here with something that meet your interests. To be honest, the main purpose is to tie your heart to mine.

I’m not thinking to do this blog commercially yet because this blog will be full of “rojak” type of information, and a place where we can enjoy when we have nothing to do.

Therefore, when you have nothing to do or feel boring at home or any other places, visit Alvinlife.com! You may find something interest to make yourself happy.

With a cup of coffee this morning, I went through youtube and found these videos. The graphics of these animations are great. These videos touched my heart deeply by showing me how we die…

Note: The topics given to these videos are totally wrong. Just ignore the topic titles. These videos are made by some scientists who predict the situations “if” there is asteroid or planet strikes towards the Earth.

A big one which can completely kills all humans within one day…

NASA shows us how a meteor stikes the Earth…

Once again, this is just an interesting Sci-Fi discussion. Don’t ever be scared of this.

Before going into the subject, I proudly present to you my secondary blog – “Computer Tips and Tech News” which has unique visitors of average 200 and pageviews of average 600 everyday.

My Traffic Sources:
These are the simple analysis of the traffic sources of ontechnews.com. If you are a blogger, you may take this as a reference in order to improve your blog’s traffic.

Based on what we can see from the two charts above, my traffics mostly from Search Engines. It means that the most visitors come to my blog through google, yahoo or others when they search for something and found my site.

This indicates that my visitors are mostly fresh and new. They come to seek for information and leave when they get what they want. This means that ontechnews.com lacks of loyal readers. A good blog requires loyal readers so that they can read the latest entries accordingly, leaving comments for all your articles, and most importantly maximize your profits (traffic is the source of money). Unfortunately, I have very less amount of comments for my articles in ontechnews.com.

Direct Traffic – Sign of the amount of loyal readers. The higher the direct traffic you have, the higher the number of loyal readers.
Referring Sites – Visitors that went to your website from another website that has a link to your website. The more the referring sites you have, the more famous your website is.

How to get loyal readers for your websites or blogs?
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