Re: Detect Internet connection Speed

[Satheesh Kumar <satheeshrulzz@...>]

Aah! Nice read that!

Maybe I can attempt to  implement that in my free time or something :D 

As of now,  efficiency takes priority over accuracy.  

Anyway, I just took some of your points.  I let the app detect that the internet connection is too laggy by trial and error.  Once this happens a few times,  I use the bytes/time method, just to make sure that the connection is indeed slow.

Ugly, yes,  but fairly effective.

On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 1:56 PM, Thijs Schreijer <thijs@thijsschreijer.nl> wrote:

> On Behalf Of Satheesh Kumar
> Sent: maandag 30 april 2012 1:40
> To: lua-l@lists.lua.org
> Subject: Detect Internet connection Speed

>
> I am using Lua to develop a mobile appication.
> Is there any function ( in lua sockets or other) to determine the speed
> of the device's internet connection?
>
> Or should I just download a file and calculate (bytes/time)
>
> I need to detect if the device's internet is 2G or not..
>

If possible, you should make it a dynamic property. Just downloading a file
and calculating is imprecise and wasting resources just for a test. So based
on its historic data the device should assume an initial state, from there
on monitor bytes/time, latency, errors and other proxy metrics to
dynamically adjust.
This is probably not appropriate, but might give you some ideas;
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.38.8600&rep=rep1&ty
pe=pdf
Doing this from Lua is going to be a challenge, but I would be interested in
the overall result

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Regards,

Satheesh