[whatwg] XHR Level 2: Accurate Speed Measurement

[Glenn Maynard]

On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 7:59 PM, Rodger Combs <rodger.combs at gmail.com>wrote:

> The UA can poll the state of the down/upload more often, and create a more
> accurate average using these additional data points.


This won't provide any better an estimate than updating every 50ms, as
you'll get with PE.

 It also has access to lower-level information about the network
> connection, and possibly knows about throttling placed by either the
> browser or the OS.


This isn't very interesting unless "possibly" is "actually"--unless someone
really intends to implement something like this.  I'm not aware of any
browser-level bandwidth throttling in any major browser, nor of any in at
least consumer versions of Windows, so this seems purely theoretical.

-- 
Glenn Maynard