DownTester 1.10

DownTester 1.10 is an advanced and easy to use tool which is specially designed to give you a professional way to test your Internet download speed in multiple locations around the world. It automatically test the download speed of the URLs that you choose, one after another. It moves to the next download URL after the specified number of seconds has been elapsed or after it downloads the specified amount of KB - just according to your preferences.

After the download test is finished, you can easily save the result into text/html/xml/csv file, or copy it to the clipboard and paste it into Excel and other applications.

Major Features:

1. Start using downTester
   • DownTester is a portable application that can be used without any installation process. Simply extract downTester.zip into any folder you want, and run the executable - DownTester.exe
   • If you want, you can also download DownTester with full install/uninstall support. In this case, you should run the downloaded DownTester_Setup.exe, and the installer will automatically copy the files and will create for you the shortcuts to DownTester utility.
2. Download Speed Columns: DownTester displays the download speed in 2 different units:
   
   • KB/Sec: (Kilobytes Per Second) - This column displays the same download speed that you usually see when you download a file with Internet Explorer, Firefox or other Web browser.
   • Mbps: (Megabits Per Second) - When you get an Internet account from your Internet company, the download speed is usually specified in Mbps. By looking in this column, you can easily find out whether you really get the download speed that your Internet provider promised to you.
     
3. Analyzing the results of your speed test
   
   • The most important data in the test result table is the Mbps speed column. If both of your Internet provider and the remote download server works properly, the Mbps speed value that you get in this column should be very close to the download speed of your Internet account.
   • If the Mbps speed of your test is much lower than Mbps speed of your Internet account (For example: You have Internet account with download speed of 3 Mbps, but you get only 2 Mbps in the download test), It's possible that you have a problem with your Internet account. However, the problem might also be in the remote download server, so it's recommended to always make a test with multiple URLs.
   • If you are not sure whether the problem is in your ISP or in the remote servers, you can ask your friends or other people on a forum to make a test with the same URLs list, and compare their results with yours.
4. FTP: Passive Mode vs Active Mode: DownTester also allows you to test the speed of FTP downloads (Addresses begin with ftp://). FTP downloads can work in 2 modes, which in some cases might give completely different results:
   • Active Mode: When downloading a file in Active Mode, the FTP server connects from port 20 into your computer in a random port number. Sometimes firewalls are configured to disallow any incoming connection. If your firewall is configured in this way, you won't be able to make a download test in Active Mode.
   • Passive Mode: When downloading a file in Passive Mode, your computer connects the FTP server in a random port number. Some Internet providers gives high priority for regular Web sites (port 80) and other popular Internet applications, while giving very low priority for connection in random port number. This technique is known as "Traffic shaping". If your Internet provider uses this technique, you may get much lower speed results with Passive Mode FTP, because the FTP clicnt connects in random port number which may get much lower priority than the regular http downloads.
   • In order to change the FTP mode in DownTester, go to Options->Advanced Option.
     
5. Testing the speed of network shares and other drives
   
   • Starting from version 1.10, DownTester also allows you to test the speed of network shares on your LAN. (For example: \MyCompf$ empmyfile.zip) However, be aware that this test calculates the speed by using the number of bytes read from the file, instead of counting the number of bytes transferred over the network.
   • Moreover, you can use this feature to test the speed of any drive in your system, including your local drive, your CD/DVD, your USB flash drive, and so on...
   • In order to use this feature, simply use the 'Add File' option (Ctrl+F9) and choose the desired file to test.

• Added support for testing the speed of network shares and even USB flash drives...
• Fixed the URL order on delete.
• Added support for automatically creating text/html report in each test (In 'Advanced Options')
• Added option: Don't Add Disabled Items To Reports.
• Added option: 'Automatically finish when the speed change is less than...' - You can use this option to automatically finish the speed test when the speed value is stable enough.
• Added option to display text report.
• Fixed problems in the latest Windows 7 Release Candidate.
• Fixed bug: DownTester created the downloaded files as dwn*.tmp in the temporary folder of Windows.

Requirements: Windows 98,Me,2000,XP,2003,2008,Vista, and Windows 7.