Re: Can nm provide connection speed ?

["Kay Sievers" <kay sievers vrfy org>]

On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 16:16, Jonas Koelker <jonaskoelker gnu org> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 10:22:44AM +0100, Patryk Zawadzki wrote:
>> On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 2:58 AM, Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com> wrote:
>> > On Mon, 2008-11-03 at 00:06 +0100, thibaut bethune wrote:
>> >> Some softwares requires to know what is the user connection speed to
>> >> deliver the best experience.
>> >> For instance, Totem has a YouTube plugin that allows the user to
>> > You'd need other pieces of code that would test-download from the
>> > content server to quickly determine the speed, and you'd also need to
>> While this is true I think we should add a place somewhere to specify
>> such information (ideally in NM as it varies between connections) so
>>
>> Please specify the speed: [ Try to detect automatically | ↓ ].
>> [x] I am charged for using this connection so try to minimize the
>> background traffic."
>
> I vaguely recall a story about a consumer device (wifi AP or similar) that'd
> phone home for an ntp update everytime it started.  The result was that A LOT
> of bandwidth was used, and someone got angry about it and wrote an article
> with lots of keen insights and pretty traffic graphs [maybe he got the ip
> address reallocated to him or something?].  Summary: don't do that.
>
> If anyone knows what I'm talking about, please link to that article, I wanna
> read it again.  And have all the arguments I can't give a reference to in mind
> the next time someone wants n-m to detect whether it's on an internets! ;)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTP_vandalism

Kay