Broadband Speed Test

Looking for a professional but fun broadband speed test? We have just what you need, and best of all, it's free!

- Own a website and want to place this broadband test on it? No problem, easy to do and it's free as well!

This broadband speed test is made with Flash and will help you test your bandwidth and find your true connection speed.

Current version is v1.05 dated 1/9/2008

Before you take this test, have you taken our Internet Speed Test? If not, you should!

Broadband Test

Do you own a website? If so, did you know you can offer this broadband speed test to your visitors? It is easy to install and you can have it up and running in a matter of minutes! You will need PHP or ASP (most web hosting companies use this).

You'll find similar broadband tests available on the internet, but you have to pay a yearly or monthly licensing fee; not so with ours! Yup, you can offer your visitors a great utility without paying a cent.

Many of our visitors have requested that logging be added to our broadband speed test, so that is exactly what we have done. If you choose to run this free utility with logging, then you will have detailed stats you can use as you see fit!

We went the extra mile and made the logging so that it occurs outside of the flash environment and happens inside a php or asp file. The broadband speed test comes with a default php file which you can use, but the beauty of it is that you can modify this file to record stats however you like (text, sql, access, etc).

Broadband Testing Popularity!

You'll find that your broadband speed test will be well received and become very popular! So popular in fact, that some visitors will keep taking the test over, and over and over… Why? - let me explain.

It happens like this - a visitor finds your free broadband speed test and tells everyone inside their organization. That organization is massive and although they all have individual IP addresses internally, they have only one (or a few) external addresses.

Because the organization uses only one external IP address, the logs show that one visitor (IP) took the broadband speed test 200 times! This is were the cool part of logging comes in - the log file can record the users IP address and a limit could be set based upon the number of times the broadband test was taken.

A message could appear that would say something like:

We see that you have taken the broadband speed test 10 times today and have reached the daily limit. If you didn't take the test yet, then others from your organization may have and there is no need to retest. Here is the average result from your organization (or IP address).

Regardless of how you install the test, you have a ton of possibilities on how you want to record and / or limit the broadband speed test.

Broadband Speed

So Jim, what is the catch? How can I get this installed on my site?

All I ask for is that you agree to our terms of service (no inappropriate sites, usage, etc) and tell others about my site, either by providing a link to our speed test, our security services or one of our other free tools. This broadband testing tool was created to help promote my site, help me do that and you're welcome to use of the test (if you didn't like it, you wouldn't use it right?)

To get it up and running, you'll need to activate the test, see below for painless details.

Here are some cool icons you may be interested in using to give me credit or to tell others about my free speed test.

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PHP Bandwidth Test for Wordpress or Website with a Sidebar

To install the Speed Test on your wordpress blog or other website in the sidebar area, then use the code below this test.

Uncompress the contents of AuditMyPC-STSB-PHP.zip to the root (main directory) of your Wordpress Blog. If you want logging to work, then you will need to give the speeds.log Group and Public write permissions. If you don't care about logging, then do nothing – the broadband speed test will still work.

Here is the tricky part for most blog owners. Go into your profile options by clicking on Users, Your Profile, then look for 'Use the visual editor when writing' and unselect it.

Now, simply create a post and add the following:

That's it! Your broadband speed test should be up and running! Now, just view the post and if it looks right to you, then go back into your profile options and turn back on (select) the visual editor that you turned off above.

ASP Bandwidth test for Sidebars

This will look exactly like the example above. Uncompress the file Auditmypc-STSB-ASP.zip to the directory you want your speed test to appear. Modify permissions to speeds.log by right clicking on speeds.log, properties, security and add IUSR_(???) so that test results can be logged (provided you want results logged).

Bandwidth for PHP Websites

If you are running PHP and would like the test found at the top of this page, then download the php speed test; here is how:

Uncompress the AuditMyPC-ST-PHP.zip into your root (home) directory, grant write permissions as mentioned above (provided you want to record bandwidth results) and you are done!

To test it out, type in your website address/speedtest.htm. The broadband speedtest.htm file is very basic and you’ll probably want to tweak it for your website.

Bandwidth for ASP Websites

IF you are running ASP and would like the test found at the top of this page, then download the asp speed test; here is how:

Uncompress the AuditMyPC-ST-ASP.zip into your root (home) directory, grant modify permissions to speeds.log by right clicking on speeds.log, properties, security and add IUSR_(???) and you should be all set!

To test your asp code, simply type in your website address/speedtest.htm.

Activate your Test

Don't forget to activate your speed test! Visit the Free Speedtest request page and enter your information. I'll do my best to get it activated as soon as possible.

These tests have a time out period on them which helps me keep applications up to date; If you are on our mailing list (see our Security Information page), you'll be notified of new versions and avoid having the 'test expired' message appear.