Group,
 
Does anyone have any ways they have ever found to be able to test a user's connection speed?  I know about the capability in
BrowserHawk, but I am looking for code that we may be able to develop.  We don't need to know exact speed, just be able to
differentiate between dial-up and broadband.  Any suggestions?
 
Tx,
Virgil Carroll
iStream Interactive, Inc.
vcarroll@i...

Hi Virgil,

One simple way to do this is using a little JavaScript to measure the time 
and then push loads of data to the client.
In the head section you add a little Javascript that fills a variable with 
the current time. Then you include a file with lots of useless data (I 
found over 50k necessary to be able to measure the time) and then after the 
include you have some more Javascript that takes the current time again. 
Store the difference between the two times in a hidden text field and 
submit it to the next page.

Based on this rather simple approach we were able to see the difference 
between ISDN dial up and a LAN. It make take some time to tweak the values 
to find out what is really ISDN and what is really a LAN, but I think that 
this could work for you as well. Let me know if you need some more info.

HtH

Imar



At 09:45 PM 8/23/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>Group,
>
>Does anyone have any ways they have ever found to be able to test a user's 
>connection speed?  I know about the capability in BrowserHawk, but I am 
>looking for code that we may be able to develop.  We don't need to know 
>exact speed, just be able to differentiate between dial-up and 
>broadband.  Any suggestions?
>
>Tx,
>Virgil Carroll
>iStream Interactive, Inc.
>vcarroll@i...
>

Hi carroll
	I am sure that upon installing DotNet u can test ur own application
on ur system with his Application Test Center-ATC. It will send some 1000
request at a time and ur application performance is shown as a graph, ur
connection speed can also be tested and it shows a graph for u. This ATC is
available when u install .Net.. check it out !!!

keep me posted if u have any issues

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-----Original Message-----
From: Virgil Carroll [mailto:vcarroll@i...]
Sent: Saturday, August 24, 2002 8:15 AM
To: ASP+
Subject: [aspx] Connection Speed Testing


Group,
 
Does anyone have any ways they have ever found to be able to test a user's
connection speed?  I know about the capability in BrowserHawk, but I am
looking for code that we may be able to develop.  We don't need to know
exact speed, just be able to differentiate between dial-up and broadband.
Any suggestions?
 
Tx,
Virgil Carroll
iStream Interactive, Inc.
vcarroll@i...


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