Speedtest Problem

[culli]

Originally Posted by John Mullan

I have a problem with the test not opening again, just a 'java' sign comming up and nothing else happens

This has happened sometime in the last week

The Speed Test has not worked for me for several days now ------the old one was so reliable ----Blacknight can we have it back -----PLEASE

[Sean]

Originally Posted by dickiesam

Personally I hate them, so I use a free download of Adblock Plus from Adblock Plus: Save your time and traffic. Works great with Firefox giving nice 'clean' pages. Don't know if it works with IE. Gave up on that long ago.

I forgot to mention that I've done this on my home PC, which indeed works and causes the page to load up much quicker also. This may be an issue on the move when using someone else's PC, but a portable version of Firefox on a pen drive with the extension may be a work around.

This evening, that SEI ad was persistently coming up on my home PC again. I can confirm that this issue affects IE7, Firefox (except using the Adblock Plus plugin) and Safari to some extent. It causes Opera to stop responding and makes it awkward to leave the speedtest as Opera by default reloads the last visited page when its opened again.

[blacknight]

So the SEI ad is causing issues? If so I can simply block them from the site

As for other people experiencing issues - we've tested on most browsers that we have access to and the only issue people might be experiencing is a cached version of the old applet ie. pre-upgrade. Clearing your cache should solve that

If the SEI thing is the issue please email support@blacknight.com and we can block them

[John Mullan]

I have just returned from hols and tried to do a speed test to discover when i login all i get is the jave sign for 3 secs and then a blank space with a littlw x in the top left corner - so whats wrong now??

[foggy_lad]

can confirm its not working on IE7 or opera 9.27 and for the people going to scream about the test not working for a day or so bear in mind the work it takes to keep this site and speedtest running and that we are not being charged for the speedtest we do not even need to register or sign in to use it!

[John Mullan]

Originally Posted by foggy_lad

can confirm its not working on IE7 or opera 9.27 and for the people going to scream about the test not working for a day or so bear in mind the work it takes to keep this site and speedtest running and that we are not being charged for the speedtest we do not even need to register or sign in to use it!

Yes but you must admit there have been a lot of problems in the last few months

[blacknight]

It should be working fine now.

[John Mullan]

Originally Posted by blacknight

It should be working fine now.

Yes Thanks Blacknight for your usual speedy response

[dickiesam]

Originally Posted by John Mullan

Yes but you must admit there have been a lot of problems in the last few months

So there have been a few problems all of which have been fixed fairly swiftly.... If you are that concerned about permanent access to this free service why not download your own free(!) personal version of this speed test program from:
MySpeed PC - Free Speed Test software for your PC

But, don't stop visiting the forum regularly. There's a lot more here than just a speed test.
Dickiesam

[foggy_lad]

working fine now and also off topic i got seamonkey working again so the test loads super-fast! thanks all at blacknight