Angus Robertson : yes i'm talking about the Client app , i must calculate the user's internet connection speed because based on this information *some separate procedures will be invoked , for example the video or audio streaming quality for commercial use and on purpose . *
On Wed, Oct 7, 2015 at 3:16 PM, Angus Robertson - Magenta Systems Ltd < an...@magsys.co.uk> wrote: > > In my audio + video streaming i must know the client internet > > connection speed so that the application will react based on this > > connection speed , so please how it's possible to calculate the > > user's connection speed asit's being used on SKYPE ' Call Quality > > Indicator ' or used here : http://www.pingtest.net/ > > Not sure if you are talking about a client or server application here. > > A server has no knowledge of client performance, even a client has > difficulty in > knowing, it might have a fast wireless connection to a router and then a > terribly > slow internet connection, or vice versa. > > Using ping you can find the round trip time in milliseconds to a host that > responds > to pings, but many hosts don't respond and firewalls often block pings. > If ping > works, it can be used to check the quality of a connection by looking for > packet > loss, which can be devastating for streaming which is often not error > corrected. > ICS has a ping component and trace route demo. > > Internet speeds are best measured from the client to a speedtest site, but > this can > be time consuming and you don't want to do it very often, also many such > sites are > unable to cope with the 150Mb and higher speeds common today on cable > modems and > FTTP. > > Angus > > > -- > To unsubscribe or change your settings for TWSocket mailing list > please goto http://lists.elists.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/twsocket > Visit our website at http://www.overbyte.be > -- Yours , -- To unsubscribe or change your settings for TWSocket mailing list please goto http://lists.elists.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/twsocket Visit our website at http://www.overbyte.be
