in reply to Check visitors bandwidth

Please don't. I hate websites where I can't simply chose the "low-calorie" version. If in doubt, maybe always select the Java/Flash version after a short timeout, and have a prompt "click here to see the HTML version". My company for example has a fast connection, but my machine there is a lowly P-II 300 with 256 MB of RAM, so I don't want a JVM hogging all the RAM that FireFox and Lotus Notes leave.

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Re^2: Check visitors bandwidth
by jbrugger (Parson) on Mar 13, 2005 at 13:37 UTC
    I need to... It's not for 'public' users that browse the internet, but for a web application that alreaddy sets some requirements to the users machine. (eg. for client side processing of some data).
    The visitors / users do have the proper machines, but not allways the proper internet connection
    For example, you could think of sales persons who have to show a live demo version of a system, using good laptops, but bad internet connections.
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      Perhaps your company is better off not hiring sales staff that cannot decide between two big buttons, one labelled

      PRESS THIS IF YOUR INTERNET CONNECTION IS GOOD

      and the other

      PRESS THIS IF YOUR INTERNET CONNECTION IS BAD

      Or write a small application that can be run from the sales persons' laptop that determines the connection. But anything that bases a decision on a single probe will have to live with the risk of making the wrong decision. Your current connection speed isn't the only you will have 10 seconds from now.

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      What is a 'proper' machine? intel? ppc? what about arm7tdmi?

      It used to be that anything that can run perl should be regarded as 'proper'.

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