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Hey all, I was wondering if there is anyway to check for a users connection speed before loading a webpage. Basically, I want to bring an appropriate page to the user, depending on their connection speed right as they log into my site. I imagine this has to e a rather quick technique as to avoid any pauses before loading.
Would some sort of jscript be efficient, or do i have to use a more advanced language?
I think there's a way, but i think you have to test their connection yourself... i'm not sure...
Use any serverside language, and instead of detecting connection speed, detect it relative to how long it takes to load a small file. Create the file as an object in the client data space
(ie: var something=somefile).
Start a counter on the server side. Have the client script tell you when it loaded the object. Look at your counter, load whatever based on that.
You probably don't even have to write the script. http://bandwidthplace.com/ appears to have a free one. (I haven't read the details of the agreement)