About Dipstick

Dipstick is our award-winning freeware that allows you to evaluate mirror sites to figure out which one has currently the least traffic.

Enjoy!

What's New Change of license and opening the source. Minor cosmetic changes Now works properly with Winsock 2 for Windows95. Also may start working with non-Microsoft TCP/IP stacks. Fixed bug that caused GPF when removing all URLs after testing is over and you picked the URL of your choice. Ability to export/import sets of URLs. Copy URL menu command in the Main Window and button in the Best URL window. Multiple URLs dragging or pasting. Works only for MSIE4 browser. Annoying ToolTips removed. Drag'n'drop source added to the Best URL window. Completed/Total URLs counter added to Dipstick drag pad. You may now drag'n'drop URLs from main Dipstick dialog window. Added ability to paste URLs into Dipstick instead of dropping. New install program now lets you install Dipstick to the location of your choice. Resizable main Dipstick dialog window. Come up with the best URL automatically. Workaround for redir.dll No more MSIE 3.0 requirement. Remembers window positions and size as well as columns widths. When manually adding locations - you may specify the URL, not host name as it was before (I still wonder how it came to my mind) Using Dipstick

To use Dipstick, please follow these steps:

Small note for newbies (all others, please do not get mad): To drag'n'drop the URL, you need to move your mouse to the link on the web page, press and hold the select (usually - left) mouse button, and drag the mouse (with the selected URL to Dipstick window and then release mouse button.
Main Window

The main window consists of -

Dipstick Opions

Options are:

URL Properties

URL Properties are:

Select URLs dialog

If you're dragging or cut'n'pasting selection from MSIE4 browser, you're supposed to chose which URLs to test.

There are two options you may want to change when selecting URLs from list:

The default values for these options are also available from the Options dialog box.

Dipstick report

When Dipstick has finished testing and there's nothing left but to start your download, you're presented with a suggestion about the best URL. From this dialog you may chose to browse to the location you like using Previous Location and Next Location buttons, Open this URL, Copy URL to clipboard or drag it to wherever you want.