{"id":1222,"date":"2013-08-01T08:38:47","date_gmt":"2013-08-01T08:38:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/help.netspotapp.com\/help\/?p=1222"},"modified":"2026-09-22T13:09:02","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T13:09:02","slug":"edit-servers-download-upload-speed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.netspotapp.com\/help\/edit-servers-download-upload-speed\/","title":{"rendered":"FAQ: Can I use my own servers to measure Download and Upload speed?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the <a title=\"NetSpot 2.2: OS X 10.9, IEEE 802.11ac Wi-Fi standard and more!\" href=\"\/help\/netspot-2-4\/\">latest release of NetSpot<\/a>, you now have the ability to manually set the servers NetSpot will contact to measure download and upload speed. Please keep in mind that this is a very experimental feature, and we will be modifying it based on user feedback and will probably move this setting to the UI later. So use at your own risk and please <a href=\"mailto:onair@netspotapp.com\">let us know<\/a> how it goes!<br \/>\n<div class=\"media post-download\">\r\n<div class=\"media-left media-middle\"><i class=\"box-40x40 icons icon-mac-xs  \"><\/i><\/div>\r\n<div class=\"media-body media-middle\">NetSpot <a href=\"https:\/\/www.netspotapp.com\/netspotpro.html\">WiFi manager for macOS<\/a> is available<\/div>\r\n<\/div><br \/>\nTo set your own servers, take the following steps:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Download and install the latest version of NetSpot, using <a href=\"\/downloads.html\">this download link<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Download our speed test PHP scripts:\u00a0<a href=\"\/download\/speed-php.zip\">https:\/\/www.netspotapp.com\/download\/speed-php.zip<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Install the PHP scripts on the server you wish to use to test speed. These PHP scripts just pass a certain amount of data to NetSpot, and the app itself measures the speed.<\/li>\n<li>Go to NetSpot Preferences -> Active scanning, and update the default links to speed measuring script to yours.<\/li>\n<li>Keep in mind, that by default, NetSpot will use these scripts, unless you update them:<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.netspotapp.com\/speed\/speed03.php<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.netspotapp.com\/speed\/speed02.php<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Also, we received some feedback from NetSpot user Flavio Donadio and he reported that this feature worked perfectly but he needed to disable zlib-compression on his web server. \u00a0To do so on an Ubuntu 12.04 Server with Apache 2, he typed on the command line:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>a2dismod deflate<br \/>\nsudo service apache2 restart<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You should be able to use a similar method on any Linux server. Again, please <a href=\"mailto:onair@netspotapp.com\">contact us<\/a> and let us know what you think of this feature.<br \/>\n<div class=\"media post-download\">\r\n<div class=\"media-left media-middle\"><i class=\"box-40x40 icons icon-win-xs  \"><\/i><\/div>\r\n<div class=\"media-body media-middle\">Get NetSpot <a href=\"https:\/\/www.netspotapp.com\/netspot-windows.html\">WiFi tool for Windows<\/a><\/div>\r\n<\/div><\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:0px; padding-top:0px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_counters\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/dot.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top:2px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_c=new Array(\"twitter\",\"facebook_like\",\"google\");var hupso_counters_lang = \"en_US\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"netspotapp\";var hupso_url_c=\"\";var hupso_title_c=\"FAQ%3A%20Can%20I%20use%20my%20own%20servers%20to%20measure%20Download%20and%20Upload%20speed%3F\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/counters.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the latest release of NetSpot, you now have the ability to manually set the servers NetSpot will contact to measure download and upload speed. 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