Re^2: Check visitors bandwidth

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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Re^3: Check visitors bandwidth by Anonymous Monk on Mar 14, 2005 at 12:11 UTC
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.	[reply]
Re^3: Check visitors bandwidth by Eyck (Priest) on Mar 14, 2005 at 11:11 UTC
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'.	[reply]