Mobile Check Bandwidth Function

[Bob Sneidar]

Ping will not work. Some firewalls will prevent ICMP packets to and or from a source. If this library is to be used universally, you need a better method to determine if a device is responding on a known port. 

The tried and true method for doing this is telnet. Unfortunately, Microsoft decided NOT to enable the telnet client on Windows 8 and above. It has to be enabled by an end user. If you can create your own telnet stack, then it's doable. 

telnet <ipaddress> <portnumber>

check the result. 

Bob S


> On Jul 2, 2017, at 18:53 , Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> Can  anyone share their "test bandwidth" library?
> 
> I'm looking for both
> 
> 1) this phone is off line
>    --easy enough… ping your server, no response, = off line
> 
> 2) check for bandwidth speed below some threshold and then inform  user
>   -- be patient, your internet speed is slow, this may take time.
> 
> anyone already invent this wheel yet?
> 
> BR