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How do you detect dialup, broadband or wireless Internet connections in C++ for Windows?

I have an installation program (just a regular C++ MFC program, not Windows Installer based) that needs to set some registry values based on the type of Internet connection: broadband, dialup, and/or wireless. Right now this information is being determined by asking a series of yes or no questions. The problem is that the person doing ...

Suggestions for replication of data from MS Sql 2005 and MySql

My company currently has a transactional db running on Sql Server 2005. We are going to add a MySql (running on linux) reporting db. We'll need to get replication running from the MS-Sql db to the MySql db. It doesn't have to be real time but should be within a few minutes. I've got pretty good MSSql Dev skills and so-so dba skills but ...

How to test Internet connection speed from command line?

There's plenty of websites for it, but they're all Flash, not of much use for servers without graphics mode. Any tool I can use to test up/down bandwidth from Linux command line? ...

Is there a way to determine if a user is using broadband or dial-up

We have a requirement from a customer to provide a "lite" version for dial-up and all the bells-and-whistles for a broadband user. The solution will use Flex / Flash / Java EJB and some jsp. Is there a way for the web server to distinguish between the two? ...

Technology behind speed test

Hi, I was wondering what is the technology behind Internet Speed test, which some websites use to check your speed e.g; http://www.speedtest.net/ The reason behind this question is, i wanted to write my own with one more feature and that is to keep checking speed after some interval so that i can have better idea of what i am getting...