Connection Speed?

[insanepyrokid]

in addition to my question about how to find out it the computer is connected to the internet, is there a way to find out approximately how fast the connecting is? im writing a script to update files from a main server and/or website and obviously i dont want to dl a 50 mb file on a comp with 56k....if anyone knows how to do this then post some sample scripts please...

[Jon]

Only way to to time the downloading of a known file:

$timer = TimerStart()
URLDownloadToFile("http://www.microsoft.com/default.asp", EnvGet("Temp") & "\speed.tmp")
$timer = TimerStop($timer)
$size = FileGetSize(EnvGet("Temp") & "\speed.tmp")
$speed = Int(($size / 1024) / ($timer / 1000))

msgbox(0, "Approximate Internet Speed", $speed & " KB/s")

[Somerset]

http://bandwidthplace.com/speedtest/

[insanepyrokid]

thanks alot for that code, it works great. i'll just have it do speed tests on a few different size files until i get accurate speeds.

[EniamaJ]

Wow thats a pretty cool code i liked that 1

[jpm]

Only way to to time the downloading of a known file:

$timer = TimerStart()
URLDownloadToFile("http://www.microsoft.com/default.asp", EnvGet("Temp") & "\speed.tmp")
$timer = TimerStop($timer)
$size = FileGetSize(EnvGet("Temp") & "\speed.tmp")
$speed = Int(($size / 1024) / ($timer / 1000))

msgbox(0, "Approximate Internet Speed", $speed & " KB/s")

Jon,

Do you know why this script have not the cache proxy problem as opposed to the download I am doing from www.hiddensoft.com?