Finding modem speed

[Samibouni]

Hello,

I'm trying to build an intellegent website that will automatically detect the user's connexion speed and resolution and provide them with the appropriate website. Using javascript to find a computer's screen resolution is pretty simple, but I was wondering whether there was a way of using it to detect the speed of the modem/connexion the user was running.

If this is not possible through javascript, is there another tiny piece of code that will do this? Perhaps there is a way of telling how long it took to download a particular page & then use that to decide which site to send the user to.

Sam

[davebat]

http://bandwidthplace.com/speedtest/

[Samibouni]

Thanks,

but I'm interested in trying to do this for myself. Call me stingy, but I'd rather not pay someone $1 a month for sometihg which I imagine to be relatively simple. The fact that I am working on website for a church also means that I want to keep the costs right down. I have waived my fee & I wish to do everything else as cheaply as possible.

Thanks

Sam

[davebat]

I also found this, it allows you to check through javascript.

http://twebman.lunarpages.com/js/BandwidthRedirect.htm

[Samibouni]

Thanks

That seems extremely helpful. I take it that I just post the script on the homepage & redirect people fron there. If not, please let me know

Thank you for your help

Sam