Start options

Start automatically when the system starts.
This option controls the auto-starting of SySpeed and activates two other sub-options:

Start wizard.
If it is selected, SySpeed wizard window is displayed on the screen right after the system start.

Show only icon in tray.
If ON, this option minimizes SySpeed into the system tray (enables tray agent) when the system just started and SySpeed run.

Auto-check for available upgrade.
Notify the user, if upgrade is available for download.

Disable the “Check Optimization Effectiveness” Procedure.
At start time user is asked to Check Optimization Effectiveness, if it was not performed before. Check this option if you want to get rid of that question at start time. It also might be useful to disable that procedure when it started, and due to some reason it cannot be finished.

System check

Warn if some parameters were not applied during the last optimization.
After optimization system has to be restarted in order to apply new network settings. If the option is ON, as soon as SySpeed is started, it performs some tests to find out how new optimized parameters were applied. If it finds out that some parameters are not applied, or are different from expected values, warning is displayed to inform the user about it.

Warn about problem with Vtcp.386 file (for Windows 98 & SE only).
If the option is ON, at start time SySpeed checks for that problem and warn the user if it is detected.
Here is a direct link to the Knowledge Base article on the Microsoft site, with details about the problem:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;Q239705&

Tray Agent

Enable tray agent.
This option enables tray agent if ON.

Connection options

Ping

Ping timeout affects all ping operations: connection checking, connection quality test etc.
Default value is 1 second. In case of low connection stability it can be increased up to 5 seconds.

Download

All the options in this section control download test, which is a part of connection speed test.

Download timeout specifies the time of waiting for the response. If no response has received during that time, download fails with “request time out” error.
Default value is 2 seconds. Can be increased up to 10 seconds.

Download limit specifies the size of data, which should be downloaded during a single download operation in order to estimate a downloading speed.
Default value is Auto. Which means that the size is controlled automatically, accordingly to known information about the connection speed. Other values specify the exact size for download operations. No limit option tells SySpeed to download all available data, no matter how big the file is. This option should be used with care, because the size of a single file could be from several hundreds kilobytes up to several megabytes. That is why “unlimited” downloading could be a disaster for slow Internet connection.

Test count specifies how many times to perform downloading during the download test.
Default value is 15.

Upload

All the options in this section control upload test, which is a part of connection speed test.

Upload timeout specifies the time of waiting for the response. If no response has received during that time, upload fails with “request time out” error.
Default value is 2 seconds. Can be increased up to 10 seconds.

Upload limit specifies the size of data, which should be uploaded during a single upload operation in order to estimate an uploading speed.
Default value is Auto. Which means that the size is controlled automatically, accordingly to known information about the connection speed. Other values specify the exact size for upload operations.

Test count specifies how many times to perform uploading during the upload test.
Default value is 15.

Select address automatically / Use the custom address.
This option can be used to set custom address for upload test. To do that, you need to select Use the custom address checkbox and type the HTTP address of the web site, which can be used for uploading. This site must have public access to some web folder with permissions to create, to write and to delete files.
See Also: Use custom address for upload test