Current News.
2012_02_07
I have noticed that McAfee is now flagging jdast as a potential threat http://home.mcafee.com/VirusInfo/VirusProfile.aspx?key=810007#none
Although its just a generic low risk warning i may well add McAfee to my list of AV companies to contact.
2012_01_23
Iv have noticed that the forums hosted by Broadbandhelper.co.uk is closed to new registrations again (although login by facebook, twitter & openID are still active), Its unfortunate but the problem is with to many spammers. So i have decided to create my own little forum and see how we go for spam, I shall be keeping a close eye on it though. Please come in and say hi 
The site template change is due to the forum not quite working properly with the old template.
2012_01_18
I have today received a report that the child process launched by JDast to do upload tests (Upload_child.exe) is being flagged by AVG. I have submitted this file on its own to AVG to be white-listed. Should be ok once they white-list this file as it doubt it will ever change after the next update.
2012_01_13
The new servers are now working properly.
2012_01_11
Having major problems with a new dedicated server at the moment. The DNS may well take some time to propagate for everyone properly.
Still having trouble with the new servers, very intermittent upload connection. Its to late to look into it tonight but will be onto it tomorrow. Sorry about this but we do our very best with little to no money in the project.
2011_12_31
It was decided that a proper domain name should be purchased for jdast and any other software i may wish to publish in the future so im afraid that another URL change has been made. Hopefully now that almost everything is all under the same domain it will not have to be changed again even if i change server hosting.
2011_12_11
As you can see iv been working in conjunction with Rob to build a new web site, I hope you all like the change. As for the problems with the default upload servers they are hopefully all fixed now with the release of version 16.4
2011_12_06
Unfortunately the default upload server providers have had to initiate an emergency migration as there suppliers have been forced to breach there contract and end the hosting service earlier than expected.
This means that the gathering of the public IP & the default upload testing will no longer work until this problem has been resolved.
P.s. The gathering of public IP will work after some time but takes a while to move on to the next source.
Sorry about this but its beyond my control and is being worked on as fast as possible.
2011_10_15
Sorry but one of the default upload testing servers is down at the moment I am working on it as fast as possible.
2011_08_26
Its looking like the test server “http://test.euroaccess.nl/” is down. Of course it may well come back at some time so I shall leave it in the default list for now. I only mention it as it was a good test server for the UK and I used it myself up until 2 days ago. Download testing servers come and go that's just the way things are.
Please, if anyone out there knows of any publicly available test files that iv not already included in my default list I would be exceptionably grateful if they could contact me.
Many thx.
2011_06_10
WARNING !
I have recently noticed a handful of sites offering a portable version of Jdast & Im also seeing many sites offering hacks, cracks & patches for Jdast (which is ridicules LOL).
THESE HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH ME AND HAVE OBVIOUSLY BEEN TAMPERED WITH !!
I would strongly suggest that you do not download from these sites and I will not take any responsibility for any problems or infections caused by installing Jdast from these sources.
2011_04_21
There has been a temporary problem with the default upload testing servers which may have caused the upload results to be inaccurate. It looks like it started at 09:00 this morning and continued until approx 17:00. This problem has now been fixed, I hope it did not affect to many people to much.
2011_03_22 ver 15.2
The TBB test files do seem to be getting quite unstable nowadays, Manually downloading there test files is often showing a much slower result than using there web tester ? I also noticed that the TBB web tester only tests your download speed by downloading for less than 3 seconds , surly this is not anywhere near enough time but thats there problem but it does still leave me wondering if I should leave the TBB files as the default.
2010_12_19 ver 13.5
The “default” test server is now back up again.
Many thx to Jimmy06.
2010_12_16
Upload test server is down from 19:40 until further notice. Jimmy06 is having to make some alterations to the server.
2010_12_10 Ver 13.4
I have always been on the lookout for new download test locations. Now thx to willemijns and his hard work collecting just such info for his own speed tester I now have a decent list of HTTP addresses. I have added them to the default drop-down list in Jdast. I do not guarantee that all of these links will work or will not be removed at some time in the future and also some may be capped but we now have a very good list to choose from. Please find what works best for yourself.
Many thanks go out to willemijns for the use of this collection of addresses.
Willemijns speed tester site :- http://www.willemijns.com/faqspeed.htm
Full list of new HTTP addresses :-
http://95.215.63.211/1000mb.bin
http://www.servers.nl/speedtest/1000mb.bin
http://test.euroaccess.nl/1000mb.bin
http://test.unet.nl/1000mb.bin
http://www.pro-noc.nl/1000mb.bin
http://www.proserve.nl/1000mb.bin
http://chi01-spd.neosurge.com/1GBtest.bin
http://ca01-spd.neosurge.com/1GBtest.bin
http://www.bbned.nl/scripts/speedtest/download/file1000mb.bin
http://speedtest.netcologne.de/test_1gb.bin
http://limestonenetworks.com/test500.zip
http://speedtest.dal01.softlayer.com/downloads/test500.zip
http://speedtest.sea01.softlayer.com/downloads/test500.zip
http://speedtest.wdc01.softlayer.com/downloads/test500.zip
http://noc.cdp.pl/get/500mb.cdp
http://centreon01.p10.beyondhosting.net/500mb.test
http://mirror.intrapower.net.au/500MB.dat
http://77.93.39.129/speedtest/500.bin
http://lw.dediserv.eu/1000mb.bin
http://174.138.169.114/1gb-file.zip
http://67.159.44.209/1GBtest.zip
http://208.85.242.69/1g.bin
http://74.63.66.114/1GBtest.zip
http://76.73.0.4/1GBtest.zip
http://mirrors.nfsi.pt/speedtest/10000mb.bin
http://bukselj.net/ftp/pub/speed/10000mb.bin
http://test-debit.free.fr/image.iso
http://test.north.kz/downloads/1000mb.test.txt
http://www.speedtestfile.com/2500mb.bin
http://vinax.net/1GBtest.zip
http://lg.denver.fdcservers.net/1GBtest.zip
http://noc.gts.pl/500mb.gts
http://www.singlehop.com/speedtest/500megabytefile
2010_11_07
Thx to Jimmy06, JDast will soon have upload testing by default ! B)
Jimmy06 has offered his server as the host to JDast users upload testing so JDast users will not need to find there own servers to enable Jdast to test there upload speeds.
There will be some work i have to do before i can release the new ver of JDast, I have to :-
* re-do the help file (it way out of date now and this just forces the issue)
* Change the default upload settings in JDast.
* update the web site.
Also im not quite sure what size test file i should set as default , im not sure what proportion of people have asynchronous or synchronous connections. if most people have bellow 1Mb/s up then i will just use a 1MB test file but that does mean that people with higher up speeds will need to change there test file to something a bit bigger (which i prefer not to do as i like it to just work straight out of the box for everyone) but with up testing i can only test the duration to upload a fixed file size. so i shall have to have a think on that.
Anyhow, Many thanks to Jimmy06 for the offer of the use of one of your servers to host this and i'm gonna also say thx from all the JDast users too (im sure they would/will say thx :D )
2010_07_12
The ThinkBroadBand.com test file are now fixed and working again.
2010_07_08
Looking like TBB have changed there info slightly to only limiting the over 100MB files so Jdast (set to default test settings) should be OK.
2010_07_06
ThinkBroadBand test files "Temporarily Unavailable" 2010_07_06 19:00
Today the ThinkBroadBand test files have become "Temporarily Unavailable" ! So any testing done with the TBB files will show the red error box "Test file is to small"
I suggest while the TBB test files are down that you might try using this test file instead :-
http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test
[only if your using the testing method :- "Measure Quantity (Fixed test time)"]
Hopefully they will be back up and working asap.
