To determine one's net speed, I guess you can write up something to send out a 100k file and calculate how long it took the user to download the file, but that still slows down LAN users. The more elegant way is to separate by the domain or IP group since LAN users have predictable net configurations while everyone else you set to compress.
-----Original Message----- From: Jim Urban [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, February 15, 2002 12:03 PM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: RE: Determining User Connection Speed Our clients run our application on both the internet and intranet. The users who use the application on the intranet are usually on a 100MB (LAN) network directly attached to the application server. For these users the application really hums. For those on the internet, using 33kb or 58kb dialup connections, the application is very slow downloading data. We have experimented with sending back the data compressed with mixed results. That is, the dialup users see a significant drop in download time while the intranet (100MB LAN) users actually see a slow down in performance do to the additional time needed to compress and uncompress the data. If we could tell when a user is on a dialup (slow) connection we could compress the data and not compressing it for those on a LAN connection. Jim > -----Original Message----- > From: Christopher K. St. John [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, February 15, 2002 11:39 AM > To: Tomcat Users List > Subject: Re: Determining User Connection Speed > > > Jim Urban wrote: > > > > Is there a way to determine the speed a user is connected to the > > internet at from within a servlet? > > > > No. > > If you explain more about why you want to know, maybe > someone could suggest something that would solve your > problem without requiring the user's connection speed. > > > -- > Christopher St. John [EMAIL PROTECTED] > DistribuTopia http://www.distributopia.com > > -- > To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Troubles with the list: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Troubles with the list: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Troubles with the list: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
