Check my Bandwidth

[sknyppy]

I'm writing some cable modem tools and need to write a tool to check the current bandwidth. Anyone have any ideas or even better scripts I might use? I was thinking about using javascript/cold fusion for development.

Thanks,
Dave

 

[tleish]

Take a look at this free tag:

CF_CheckBandwidth
Checks bandwidth by sending a compressed file and checking for the time lapse. Outputs a varible representing connection speed.

http://devex.allaire.com/developer/gallery/info.cfm?ID=CA3471E5-2830-11D4-AA9700508B94F380

- tleish

 

[sknyppy]

I tried that tag but I can't get it to work. The only value it returns is a number between 0-4 in the url string and then stops. How am I supposed to get the bandwidth speed from that?

Thanks,
Dave

 

[tleish]

Read the checkbandwidth.txt that comes in the zipped file:

CF_CheckBandwidth
Ashley King
aking@allaire.com

DESCRIPTION:
Checks bandwidth by sending a compressed file and checking for the time lapse. Outputs a varible representing connection speed.

SPEC:
<CF_CheckBandwidth

[

help=&quot;yes&quot;>

OUTPUT:
variables.browser.speed

[

0-4

]

0 = Page is cached
1 = up to 9600 baud modem
2 = up to 28800 baud modem
3 = up to 56600 baud modem or ISDN
4 = up to and above 100000 ISDN or T1

USAGE:

Place the file checkbandwidth.cfm in your cfusion\customtags directory. Add the tag to any document. It will add a few seconds to page access time for dialup users, as 16 k worth of data must be downloaded. NOTE: You must place the benchmark.txt file within the same directory as the calling template. DO NOT MODIFY BENCHMARK.TXT or calculations will be compromised.

Add the attribute help=&quot;yes&quot; to display this message. REMOVE the attribute help to disable this message.

JavaScript modified from Cut-N-Paste JavaScript from ISN Toolbox, Copyright 1996, Infohiway, Inc.

http://www.infohiway.com

- tleish

 

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