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VIVILPROJECT SPEEDTEST
v5.00 (c) Sébastien WILLEMIJNS
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Version française
disponible iciHello,
Welcome to my speedtest page,
Classical method who has been known and developped to test your Internet speed (download a testfile from a webserver) can not be sufficient for high speed because this kind of servers does not "hold out the load" of a lot of users...
This speedtest use best and efficient method to test your DOWNLOAD speed with the "mirror method" who tries to download in same time a lot of big files from best FTP mirror servers you can access...
Note this software works well under all Windows version (see the FAQ for Vista/2008/Seven).
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First, every FTP server (one French test FTP server and all MANDRIVA ISO distribution mirror servers by default in v3.00) are tested since about 13 seconds to known her individual speedtest...
Second, the eight FTP servers who gives you biggest data volume with the first test will be used during 2 minutes for a multithread FTP download to known your real speedtest...
QUICK LAUNCH:
- After unzipping the software, validate default choices by typing on "ENTER" keystroke (please read all the text before validate ;),
- Unlock/authorize ARIA2/ARIA2C software if your firewall ask you about this,
- Wait the elapsed time displayed and read the result in the blue lines which are present on the end of the text report.
Some interesting values:
- VoIP use 12 KBytes/s IP,
- Classical TV DSL use 2,1 MBits/s IP for cartoons to 3,8 MBits/s for movies or TV shows,
- HDTV DSL use 8,1 MBits/s IP for movies or TV shows.
General F.A.Q about this software:
Q: Can i detect Gigabyte offers with your software ?
A: Yes with your help. see "known bug section" for more details.
Q: I use a 64 bits version of Windows, it this software works ?
A: Yes.
Q: Is this software is free ?
A: Yes, core is based to open-source projects and all my batch are freeware.
Q: How long this test durates ?
A: between 15 and 25 minutes for guaranteed tests.
Q: My antivirus tells me your software can be dangerous !
A: This software contains a lot of batch commands... some "high sensibility" antivirus can not like this kind of computer language...
Q: What is your guarantee to obtain real result ?
A: In a theorical manner, this test mainly use university networks and FTP servers all around the world which is all reputable more performant than a lot of commercial services as ISP or others multinationals. In a practical manner, this software has been sucessfully tested on several 100 Mbit/s FTTH network lines. I think this software can not actually (in July 2010) detect speed more than 1 Gbit/s for download...
Q: What is his advantage ?
A: It is the only software from 400 (four hundreds) i have succesfully tested to displaying real download result from line over 10 MBit/s... if you prefer to choose beautiful and unprecise speedtest WEB applications it is you choice but not mine sic !
Q: In my case, i use a small Internet offer as POTS or a small DSL offer as 2 Mbit/s) and all WEB tests i use give me same value as your test ! what is the interest of your software for my case ?
A: It is in fact the opposite observation of preceding question and i will give you the same answer: my software has a guarantee ;)
Q: How to unistall this software ?
A: You can safely delete these files and the directory... This software is now 100% portable so they do not let traces on your computer ;)
Q: How to test my UPLOAD speed ?
A: Version 3.0 to 3.31 included an upload test but it can be technically easily detected so i stop to purpose it... Upload speed can be also tested by transferring a big file to a FTP site or by using a upload test site ( here or here ) without obtaining bad result because UPLOAD tests use less bandwidth than DOWNLOAD tests... (in 2007, the majority of servers detect my 1 Mbit/s upload speed but not 50 Mbit/s FTTH uploads speed...)
Q: Is this software is compatible with BartPE ?
A: No because this kind of emulation is too slow (i have tried to install it in my hard disk with no success)
Q: Your tests are too long !
A: but they include a guarantee ;) choose your camp.
Technical F.A.Q about this software:
Q: What is the theorical limit of this software when i use long version ?
A: This software can give bad results when the sum of average speed from eight best tested FTP servers is smaller than your maximal theorical speed... When i wrote this sentence (July 2010) and since the France, the safety margin for my software to guarantee the result when the Internet network works well was about 3000% (yes 3000%) on a DSL 28 Mbit/s ATM and about 450% on a 100 MBit/s IP network line.
Q: I actually notice than my Internet connexion in some countries is dramatically slow but your test gives me my full speed ! why ?
A: The given final speed by this software for international tests is only a GLOBAL parameter which is often reached even if some Internet network part of your ISP are down or overloaded. In others words, my international tests (with no report) can not permit us to detect some networks problems at your ISP but ONLY on a signifiant part or the totality of his network ! "1" menu from extra tools purpose to list all tested servers and calculate a "speedsum" which permits to you to counterbalance the main result if you suppose they are a temporary problem...
Q: Why your quick test is not accurate than long test ?
A: (FYI this test does still exist on new v5.0 core) Because all FTP servers are tested by "eight groups" in accordance with list order: the hazard can do that an average speed FTP server (tested with 7 down or lazy others servers) can be better classified for the final test than 8 best FTP servers tested together in same time...
3.30 Version now purposes, with an one minute additionnal time (compared to old quick test) to increase his accuracy by testing again the 20 best FTP servers tested... in a practical manner, this test well increase the quick test but real best and good test will always be the long test because too few FTP servers (in February 2007) reachs speed more than 50 Mbit/s...
Q: Why you does not use HTTP test servers for downloads ?
A: Only because my test can be detected (with "User-Agent" and "Referer" info)
Q: Why you use 8 simultaneous threads for this kind of test ?
A: My internal tests shows we must use more than 3 threads to guarantee and saturate an Internet link. The other advantage is to increase safety margin (see below) because more you use threads (in a clever way), less FTP servers you use can be "ultra-powerful" to guarantee result...
Q: Why some WEB speedtest can give me a value greater than your software ? A: All WEB speedtest installed in some big servers -AND- which using very small testfile (which give you result in less than 3 seconds for high speed) can give you in about 10% of case some greater values who can be higher than 25% of your maximal average speed because this delay is too short for the ISP hardware to stabilize your commercial rate...>BR>
Q: Why your software does not test all FTP servers in same time?
A: Because it is really unnecessary and disrepectful to use on very test during 2 minutes some faraway servers from your country which in all cases will does not "hold out the load"...
F.A.Q about speed test:
Q: How to optimize my PC ?
A: With TCP OPTIMIZER
Q: I'm afraid my computer is too old !
A: FYI 6 Mbit/s IP speed (7,2 Mbit/s ATM) has been very hard to optain under a Pentium II 233Mhz Windows 98SE without firewall, antivirus and others spywares ;) We can write here without tell you some big mistakes that a Pentium I is the minimum to surf on 512 Kbits, a Pentium 3 for 8 Mbit/s and a P4 to surf on 20 Mbit/s (i only suppose for the last thing)
Q: I'd like to compare values you display with real commercials offers...
A: See below:
| Software values |
Real IP value | Real ATM value | Name of commercial offer |
|---|---|---|---|
(1) DSL and FTTH are not the same technology / It is too early to have some real values because they are too few customers in France ;)
Q: Every workdays between 5pm and 10 pm and every week-ends, my bandwidth can have 10/20% differences at a few minut of interval, can it be logical ?
R: Yes if your ISP has non-optimized liaisons...
Known bug:
- This software hasn't been tested / configured for FTTH-100 Mb/s and more. Please write me when the software needs to ask it. A temporary tip (not guarantee) is to change 8 to 60 for "NumberOfServersForFinalTest" in vpst.ini file.
If you discover a bug:
No software or programmer is perfect so please give your report by mail with this informations:
- Used software version number ?
- Used Windows version (if you use Vista, do you use yet UAC ?) ?
- What firewall and antivirus do you use ?
- Please describe with a lot of precision the problem, copy/paste the error or send me screenshot (via imageshack.us if possible)...
Thanks in advance for your help...
What's New:
v 5.00:
- Now the software is compatible with Windows 64 bits OSes,
- Now the software only exist in portable version format,
- Some menus has been deleted.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:
- Thanks to THF for question.exe and Patrick Vincendon for winlocate.exe,
- Thanks to Pierre, SEKH, stlf, zebu66 and gsrider (beta-testers) ;)
LAST DATE OF CORE DATABASE UPDATE: 28/07/2010 (DD/MM/YYYY date format)
ABUSE AND WARNING:
Using this kind of FTP servers is not logic (it is not for speedtest all these FTP mirrors servers has been made...) so please be clever for the Internet community to do not abuse to launch this software...
FTP Admins who wish to do not include his FTP server from all my FTP list can write me and create an empty file in the directory before the mirror directory as "ftp.foo.com/pub/mirror/no-speedtest-here-please.txt"
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