Error in your bandwidth reporting
George Sambataro (wx@pcwp.com)
Sat, 06 Mar 1999 09:21:08 -0500
HI,
I view reports generated by your software at Mindspring and have a
comment/question.
I am testing a Visual Basic program that checks ONLY the HTTP header of a
file (to determine if it has been updated, etc..)
Yesterday, the 5th, I did a test on a pcwp2.zip file in a web /data
directory. The file size is about 470,000 bytes.
I did 500 requests where the transfer was stopped after ONLY reading the
"small" HTTP header file. Since I work via modem I was able to confirm
that indeed there was a small transfer in data for each request (1 second
using a modem connection).
The report at
http://www.pcwp.com/stats/stats.day.5.html showed the following line item....
14.78 70.39 22313932 500 | /data/pcwp2.zip
indicating that each download was reported as the full 470K (approx) and
that I has used over 22 meg of bandwidth.
This indicates to me that the reporting system is not really keeping track
of bytes transferred but rather just header requests.
I was hoping to use the check header programming method to save bandwidth,
which it does.... but your reports will not indicate this (and I save no $$
at Mindspring).
Please advise.
Thanks,
George
George Sambataro
President
PC Weather Products, Inc.
Marietta, GA.
wxperson@pcwp.com
WEB: http://www.pcwp.com
770 953-3506