Hi fellow monks.

I've tried to find a satisfactionary way determine a visitors bandwith, but cannot find anything, but tools to check your own, or tests where you time an up / download file.
However, what i'd like, is to write a tool (app-helper) that determines a visitors bandwith, and so redirects the user to the proper site (generated pages).
for example, i use perlmagic to create thumbnails and and a gd graph module to create graphs, but i'd like to set the width, hight and quality of previews appropriate to a users internet-speed
Then the visitor allways would be able to create better settings (and wait longer) or be content with a fast site.
i do not want to have a link in front of the pages, where the user has to select a 'speed', or quality, it has to be automatically chosen.

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