Wowza Media Systems

Bandwidth Checker

To install

VISTA/WINDOWS 7:   Right click install.bat and select Run as Administrator
WINDOWS:   Double click the install.bat batch file
LINUX:   Run ./install.sh
MAC OSX:   In a terminal window run ./install.command

Contents

client/bwchecker.fla: is a continuous bandwidth checker used to test a client's bandwidth available downstream bandwidth from Wowza Server.

client/bwcheck.fla: is an example of how you might call the bandwidth checker from your on Flash client application. When the bandwidth checker is done it will call onBWDone with the calculated bandwidth in kilo-bits per second.

client/CtoSBWCheck.fla:
is sample code for measuring the upload (client to server) bandwidth.

To run

Double click client\bwchecker.html and click Start. The sample application will return the download speed and latency value between the Wowza Server and your local browser approximately once every five seconds.

Additional resources

Wowza Media Server Quick Start Guide
Wowza Media Server Forums
Dynamic Bandwidth Checker

Note: To run the examples on a machine that does not include a web browser, you must either copy the .html, .js, .gif, .png, .xap and .swf files to a machine that does include a web browser or make these files available through a web server on the machine running Wowza Server. Upon running the .html file, you will also need to change the rtmp:// URL to point to the ip address of the server running Wowza Server.