diff --git a/src/@dseries/dseries.m b/src/@dseries/dseries.m
index 2b7c78c669832ed374ecae0672e43d09998772cf..771df1040ce6eafc09cd6992b40fb36ef569a5ae 100644
--- a/src/@dseries/dseries.m
+++ b/src/@dseries/dseries.m
@@ -216,12 +216,8 @@ end % classdef
 %$ t = zeros(8, 1);
 %$
 %$ try
-%$     [strfile, status] = urlwrite('https://www.dynare.org/Datasets/dseries/dynseries_test_data.m','dynseries_test_data.m');
-%$     if ~status
-%$         error()
-%$     end
-%$     ts = dseries('dynseries_test_data.m');
-%$     delete('dynseries_test_data.m');
+%$     dseries_src_root = strrep(which('initialize_dseries_class'),'initialize_dseries_class.m','');
+%$     ts = dseries([ dseries_src_root filesep 'tests' filesep 'data' filesep 'dynseries_test_data.m' ]);
 %$     t(1) = 1;
 %$ catch
 %$     t = 0;
diff --git a/tests/data/dynseries_test_data.m b/tests/data/dynseries_test_data.m
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..c6ade02c8b38d98a4184b131cad5200464073813
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/data/dynseries_test_data.m
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+FREQ__ = 4;
+INIT__ = '1994Q3';
+NAMES__ = {'azert';'yuiop'};
+TEX__ = {'azert';'yuiop'};
+
+azert = randn(100,1);
+yuiop = randn(100,1);
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