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[Hans Zaunere]

Jay wrote:

> Anyone here have any experience with bandwidth testing? Basically, I'm
> looking to determine a website visitor's connection speed so I can direct
> them to an appropriate media stream.

I've done bandwidth testing, but not between a user's browser and the server - typically it's between two servers :)

I'm not sure if there is a good way of doing this, though; if there was, the major sites like cnn.com and so forth wouldn't ask you to select the stream's speed.  Maybe there's a way to talk directly to a particular plugin and ask it what kind of internet connection it's owner configured it for, but it's probably not a good idea to saturate the client's internet link.  I suppose you could traceroute them and possibly determine from that what kind of link they're on, but I would think that's very unreliable and complex.

H