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Subject: Detecting a users connection speed
Category: Computers
Asked by: rich1980-ga
List Price: $10.00
Posted: 13 Sep 2002 10:52 PDT
Expires: 30 Oct 2002 13:43 PST
Question ID: 64706
How do i find out a users connection speed, at the server end, when
the user requests a web page? (e.g. what lanuage would be used to
write the program with, how would I get the result back from the
sever?)
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Subject: Re: Detecting a users connection speed
From: asdffdsa-ga on 13 Sep 2002 11:05 PDT
 
Check out BrowserHawk at http://www.cyscape.com/ .  They have software
for java, ASP, or ColdFusion that will detect not only connections
speeds, but other useful information such as browser type, plug-ins
avaiable and their version.  It's not free, but the prices seem to
reasonable.
Subject: Re: Detecting a users connection speed
From: pne-ga on 14 Sep 2002 07:58 PDT
 
I doubt that it's feasible to detect a user's connection speed since
that's not the only bottleneck... if the Internet is congested between
the server and the client, the speed may drop even further. Or the
user might be downloading a couple of large files in the background
while connecting to your site so it might look like a 33K dialup while
it's really 128K dual ISDN (or whatever).

Why not simply ask them?
Subject: Re: Detecting a users connection speed
From: fluttervertigo-ga on 29 Oct 2002 18:28 PST
 
You've not commented on your budget for a solution.  BrowserHawk is
the usual tool for dealing with this desire.  Just before, and just
after ASP caught on as "the latest thing" in terms of web programming
(3-4 years ago), Microsoft was semi-reasonable in keeping the
browscap.ini file current but several other people took the baton and
kept running with it far more than Ms could have ever hoped to.

BrowserHawk does cost money, on a machine-by-machine basis. 
Unfortunately, the per-seat basis is how many IIS/ASP sites got ruined
- people would try to cut corners by using Access as the database
instead of SQL Server and would continue to cut corners whereever
possible.

Anyway, if you want to research the topic thoroughly, I can supply you
with the search criteria I have scanned & verified in the Google
Groups:

use the 'advanced search':  All of the Words: "asp browser detection",
At Least One of the Words: "browscap mswc", and change the "Order By"
from "Sort By Relevance" to Sort By Date".

FYI:  the MSWC is the original name of the name of the option
Microsoft originally distributed as the free object used for browser
detection.

good luck!

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