Posted by burgermeister01@gmail.com on 08/23/07 14:37

On Aug 23, 6:13 am, FrobinRobin <frobinro...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I intend to use Ajax for a kiosk application, it's primary usage is to
> retrieve live data from my DB, it's a fairly small amount of data (5
> fields, of small data size and limited to 15 rows).
>
> When I check my server logs I can see that the kiosk page has used a
> fair amount of bandwidth this month, this is obviously because a
> javascript timeout refreshes the data every 10 seconds. What I need to
> know is how to calculate the bandwidth of the data for every ten
> seconds and then I can do the math to work out usage hours * bandwidth
> per hour.
>
> This is probably a fairly simple task but I've never done it before so
> any help would be much appreciated!
>
> Many Thanks

I'm not entirely sure that PHP is really the best solution to your
problem. There may be a method of measuring bandwidth with PHP, but
probably an easier way would simply be to use a network analyzer, for
example, Ethereal. However, such software has little to do with PHP
programming, so unless you still feel that PHP is the best solution,
further inquiries should be directed to a more fitting newsgroups.

Good luck!

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