MySpeed Internet Speed Tester

Adding user-entered Session ID's / Names to MySpeed reports

Session ID is a feature of MySpeed Server Professional, NOC and Support Editions, which greatly enhances the performance database by tagging speed test results with a text identifier. The Session ID string, such as a name or support ticket number, may be entered by the end user, or may be passed automatically to the web page as uneditable text. Try the online demo.

In the standard version of MySpeed Server, you typically see the "Click to start MySpeed" button:

However, by enabling the SID option in the Administration, Applet Configuration, Reporting option:

you can set the default text which appears in the SID field when a MySpeed test starts:

For example, with the SID option enabled, when Tom, Hank, and Julian start MySpeed tests from their computers, they just need to enter in their names:

to have whatever text they enter then appear as a column in the MySpeed server-side reports.

You can also set the SID so the user cannot change it. This allows you to pass a string via the MySpeed Server web page using JavaScript or similar method. For example, if you have a pre-validated a user/password logon you could then set the username as the session-ID using the HTML syntax.

To make the MySpeed SID uneditable, the value needs to start with a *. This can be set in the Administration, Applet Configuration, Reporting or in the web page HTML. For example <param name="SID" value="*Tom">. The HTML for the applet would look something like the HTML below: