Re: Can nm provide connection speed ?

["thibaut bethune" <thibaut bethune gmail com>]

With Ubuntu, Synaptic deals with package installation.
I've just noticed that Synaptic displays the current connexion speed while
installing package.
I had 230 kB∕s, then i closed my BitTorrent client and i got 580−680 kB∕s
i don't know if it can help


2008/11/3 Tambet Ingo <tambet gmail com>:
> On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 11:22 AM, Patryk Zawadzki <patrys pld-linux org> wrote:
>> This way we could make both Totem and PackageKit happy (the former
>> needs bandwidth to optimize streaming, the latter doesn't want to pull
>> updates on GPRS and needs bandwidth to throttle the background
>> downloads).
>
> The active device type is already available on the NetworkManager DBus
> API. The broadband modem speed (at least network type, ie gprs/3g/...)
> will be available in the near future. But having every application
> know so much about different device types and their details, not to
> mention that active 1gig ethernet device usually doesn't mean you have
> that connection speed, I think there is room for some sort of library
> or service that is implemented on top of NM but below user
> applications.
>
> Tambet
>