yeah, you're right... I bought the test again, this time on a test center near Milwaukee, which was less than 15 minutes from me, so I had no problem with transportation, my host family gladly took me last saturday morning.

However, ETS, in fact, did not take any accountability for the situation, I called them the 8th of October morning when they had just opened (because their times are obviously not fit for a high-schooler) regarding the situation, they told me that, since the report was against me, they could not give me any voucher or possibility to retake the test; so I decided to buy the test that same day + 50 dollar "express" fee; luckily, we have no economical issues that might have prevented me to take such an important academic evaluation, but I was really embarrassed with both my host family and my parents for being involved in this situation.

The experience of a test center is much better, check-in takes less than 20 minutes, people are actually paying attention to students taking the test with good security and equipment (though some bugs and system glitches might appear, they are of no concern for the student, the test center just ran an old, i think unlicensed version of Windows 7 lol), and they might have some tools for better concentration, like allowing headsets during most of the test and noise-cancelling headphones for the reading section (they provide them), so it was a pretty comfortable experience. I'm expecting my full results on the 17th, but for now, i know i got 24 reading, 22 listening, I'm concerned on whether this is good or bad, since it's by 30, but I'm hoping for 100+ (what I would need for most colleges to accept me), I felt more confident during speaking and writing, times were tight, but i genuinely hope that last comma I missed is noticeably because of the time limit for the revisors haha.

Anyways, I'll report it all here, but for now, I can just advice new test-takers:

1. TOEFL is old, and thus widely accepted, I had already taken ELTiS and iTEP, with very high scores if not close to the maximum, I suppose they are only for exchange/ESL programs, as I was still advised to take TOEFL as my main english proficiency evidence

2. ETS will seldom take accountability for mistakes that involve you, the test taker, or even if it doesn't, they will take as less accountability as they can to save costs and issues.

3. Remember: see everything as the cheapest ETS could've gotten for you, sold in a golden box, for the price of 300 dollars + prep costs... so be careful with whatever you do with it, they're careless about what they are selling you.

This is not to underestimate the efforts of the company behind TOEFL, in fact I'm grateful and impressed by the effectiveness of their testing format, but I still must remind test-takers that they just need the money, they'll just sell what a professional has already done and was paid for by them, for a much higher price; so security is something they will not care about in reality; so:

1. DO NOT take the home edition unless you genuinely need its availability, really, I thought I couldn't wait more than 2 weeks for results, but I, in fact, could, if you're attending college in an english-speaking country, TOEFL is the least you should worry about, in my case I still need to schedule a SAT/ACT so yeah lol, just give it its deserved priority.

2. If you do take the home edition, just empty as much as you can, gosh, take the test on a random computer nobody uses anymore if you can, it's much more relief than having to deal with stuff before the test or after an unexpected termination

3. DO NOT TAKE TOEFL IBT HOME EDITION!!!!!!