A tool to sample the speed of accessing files over the network to and from the carefreecomputing.org web site.

Prerequisites on the client system, the one you're browsing this page with:

• A personal web server
• A writeable directory (folder) on the client web browser machine
• PHP installed and PHP scripts executable from the writeable directory

Now configure the speed trial:

• Please enter the URL of the writeable folder:
• Test results will (optionally) be e-mailed to:
• Total number of runs in this trial:
• Minutes to elapse between each run:

The Trial

1. Three blocks of data, a results template, and a PHP program are copied into the writeable directory you specified above
2. (This may take a few minutes)
3. Each run copies the three blocks of data from your machine to the server and copies three similar blocks back to your machine, timing each block.
4. A note is made of the timings and, if more runs are needed, after the specified delay the next run begins.
5. Upon completing the specified number of runs a file with the timings and averages is written to the writeable directory and results are e-mailed to you at the address specified
6. The data blocks and scripts are left in the writeable directory in case you want to run another trial later