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in reply to testing connection speeds

Smokeping with the curl probe, combined with your known-size image concept, could give you a nice system with no development effort. Plus you get pretty graphs for free. Smokeping also has built-in alarming so you could get emails or something if your speeds drop to a certain level.

andyford
or non-Perl: Andy Ford