# How to detect connection speed?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-detect-connection-speed/161696>\
**Category:** web dev\
**Created:** [September 6, 2005, 11:00am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-detect-connection-speed/161696 "2005-09-06T11:00:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![sleepyball](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@sleepyball](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/sleepyball)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2005, 11:00am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-detect-connection-speed/161696/1 "2005-09-06T11:00:40Z")

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Is there any way you can detect the users connection speed using javascript? or do you have to do it on the server side? if so, how?