Re: Crazy idea about detecting visitor's connection speed
| From: | Chris Hewitt | Date: | Tue, 16 Jul 2002 10:47:38 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Crazy idea about detecting visitor's connection speed | ||
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Jason Wong wrote:
On Tuesday 16 July 2002 17:12, Cedric Veilleux wrote:HTH ChrisWhat I was thinking about is doing a reverse dns lookup on the client's IP and try to determine quickly if he's on a low or hi speed connection.You have to bear in mind that reverse DNS lookups are not instantaneous. It can take anywhere up to around 30 secs for it timeout. Are you prepared to make your users wait that long? I feel the idea is not accurate. My ip address (a static one from my isp) would remain the same if I went to ADSL from my current dial-up access.