On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 16:16, Jonas Koelker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 10:22:44AM +0100, Patryk Zawadzki wrote: >> On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 2:58 AM, Dan Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > On Mon, 2008-11-03 at 00:06 +0100, thibaut bethune wrote: >> >> Some softwares requires to know what is the user connection speed to >> >> deliver the best experience. >> >> For instance, Totem has a YouTube plugin that allows the user to >> > You'd need other pieces of code that would test-download from the >> > content server to quickly determine the speed, and you'd also need to >> While this is true I think we should add a place somewhere to specify >> such information (ideally in NM as it varies between connections) so >> >> Please specify the speed: [ Try to detect automatically | ↓ ]. >> [x] I am charged for using this connection so try to minimize the >> background traffic." > > I vaguely recall a story about a consumer device (wifi AP or similar) that'd > phone home for an ntp update everytime it started. The result was that A LOT > of bandwidth was used, and someone got angry about it and wrote an article > with lots of keen insights and pretty traffic graphs [maybe he got the ip > address reallocated to him or something?]. Summary: don't do that. > > If anyone knows what I'm talking about, please link to that article, I wanna > read it again. And have all the arguments I can't give a reference to in mind > the next time someone wants n-m to detect whether it's on an internets! ;)
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