Internet speed test (was.. without title :-)

[Sarah Reichelt]

Hi Eric,

I think your plan is a good one provided your web site is hosted on a 
very reliable server. You may have problems if your site is down but 
the person is connected. If the plugins require access to your web site 
then this is a vlid check, however if you are just checking for an 
internet connection, you may want to have a backup plan. If the initial 
connection to your site fails, try opening a socket to Google or some 
big, reliable site. If this fails too, you can assume they are off 
line.

As regards speed, you are downloading a tiny file, but I wonder is it 
faster just to try opening a socket and not actually downloading 
anything? In my experience, all these methods are fast enough if the 
connection is OK, but you need to test the timeouts if there is no 
connection as they can be very slow.

Cheers,
Sarah


On 18 May 2005, at 6:26 AM, Eric Chatonet wrote:

> Thanks to all who replied to my internet speed test request.
> The results show that the average is about 250/300 milliseconds from 
> Europa and North America,
> seems to be a bit longer from Japan :-)
>
> My aim was to know the internet connexion status of an user with 
> reliability: that's necessary for several plugins I am working on...
> So I put a text file containing the text string "true" on my web site: 
> reading or not this file makes the test.
> Any better or faster "completely reliable" idea?
>
> Best regards from Paris,
>
> Eric Chatonet.
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