How to check internet speed in Xamarin forms application

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How to check internet speed in Xamarin forms application

Kumar B, Kiran 0

Hello All,

Hope everyone is doing well.
I'm reaching out here to get some help on one of the issues we are facing any help would really be appreciated. following is the issue description.
we are building a xamarin forms application that is mainly focused on ios and android.
we want to check the internet speed before making any API calls in the application if the network speed is good we want to proceed with API call else we want to skip the call.
the reason is simple we are making multiple API calls in the background when the app is in use which is impacting the performance of the app when ever there is low network speed.
note we already tried xamarin essentials, ping url tests but these are not serving the purpose.
we really looking forward to the best solution and any help would be really very much appreciated as this is very critical for us.
Thanks in advance!
happy coding...

Yonglun Liu (Shanghai Wicresoft Co,.Ltd.) 50,126 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff

2023-02-14T08:37:07.8666667+00:00

There is no such API to test the speed of the Internet, usually you can use a test file for users to download and get the user's bandwidth by duration.

However, your requirements are related to API requests, in which case loading test files may not be applicable to your situation.

Here are two solutions you can refer to, which should help you.

Solution 1.

You can determine whether the user's network is good at this time by initiating a request to your API server within a specified period of time and returning the number of successes.

For example, if the number of times the API server returns successes is greater than 10 times within 1s, that is, the delay between the user's network and the API is less than 100ms. In this case, we assume that the network is in good shape.

Solution 2.

You can use the API of the native platform to obtain information such as Wi-Fi bandwidth, signal strength, etc. to determine the user's network speed.

Please refer to Invoke platform code to get more details about how to invoke native code.

Would it be helpful for you?

Your prompt reply will be highly appreciated.

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Yonglun Liu (Shanghai Wicresoft Co,.Ltd.) 50,126 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff

2023-02-14T08:37:07.8666667+00:00

There is no such API to test the speed of the Internet, usually you can use a test file for users to download and get the user's bandwidth by duration.

However, your requirements are related to API requests, in which case loading test files may not be applicable to your situation.

Here are two solutions you can refer to, which should help you.

Solution 1.

You can determine whether the user's network is good at this time by initiating a request to your API server within a specified period of time and returning the number of successes.

For example, if the number of times the API server returns successes is greater than 10 times within 1s, that is, the delay between the user's network and the API is less than 100ms. In this case, we assume that the network is in good shape.

Solution 2.

You can use the API of the native platform to obtain information such as Wi-Fi bandwidth, signal strength, etc. to determine the user's network speed.

Please refer to Invoke platform code to get more details about how to invoke native code.

Would it be helpful for you?

Your prompt reply will be highly appreciated.

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