ipone app streaming video bandwidth check

Question

Hi,

I have an iphone app, which plays live streaming videos. I want to check the bandwidth of the users connection, depending on which i will assign low, medium or high streaming to

Any idea on how to check the users bandwidth / internet connection speed?

Answer 1

The simplest solution would probably be to have your app stream a known file from your server on startup. This should tell you how fast their data rate is at the moment.

You could do this streaming in a background thread while the app is running so the user wouldn't have to wait for the test to complete.

The easiest way to do this would just be use the NSURLConnection class to get the file asynchronously and use the connection:didRecieveData: to get a measure of the data rate.

Sam