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

[Alex Tweedly]

Sarah Reichelt wrote:

> Hi Eric,
>
> 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.

I'd be slightly cautious about opening the socket and not transferring 
anything, especially if you this might happen frequently (ie.. very 
frequently).  A socket opening without any data transfer (repeatedly) 
just might get picked up by an intrusion detection system as suspicious 
behaviour pattern .....

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