On Saturday 08 July 2006 19:03, Colin Davis wrote:
> [...] download a testfile from a fast source, such as Sourceforge.org,
> and time the download- We can use this to determine the speed of the
> connection, and set bandwidth limits accordingly.
By that you can only measure the download capacity. Upload capacity (and
not swamping it) is much more important and varies wildly for a given
download capacity across countries and providers.
> -Colin
David
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