How to calculate/get the downloading speed of the internet??

[rajeshgubba]

Hi,
can anybody plz tell me how can i get the downloading speed of internet.
i am trying to download one file from internet using the java code.

we can easily calculate the downloading speed if we know the file size and internet speed per sec.

How can we get the internet speeed?

help me

[Norm]

What is the internet speed? If it takes n seconds to download y bytes then the download speed would be y/n bytes/sec
Use System.currentTimeMillis() for the time and accumulate the bytes read by saving the return value from read() method

[fishtoprecords]

How can we get the internet speeed?

Why do you want it? What do you expect it will tell you?

What it can tell you is the speed at that instant. If you try later, you are most likely to get different speeds.

What can you do if you don't like the number you calculate?

[J-Live]

Is there a way to limit the download speed so the connection doesn't use all the bandwidth, if I'm using a HttpUrlConnection?

[Norm]

Put a sleep inside the loop to slow it down