file - Measuring Download Speed Java

Question

I'm working on downloading a file on a software, this is what i got, it sucesfully download, and also i can get progress, but still 1 thing left that I dont know how to do. Measure download speed. I would appreciate your help. Thanks. This is the current download method code

    public void run()
    {
        OutputStream out = null;
        URLConnection conn = null;
        InputStream in = null;
        try
        {
            URL url1 = new URL(url);
            out = new BufferedOutputStream(
            new FileOutputStream(sysDir+""+where));
            conn = url1.openConnection();
            in = conn.getInputStream();
            byte[] buffer = new byte[1024];
            int numRead;
            long numWritten = 0;
            double progress1;
            while ((numRead = in.read(buffer)) != -1)
            {
                out.write(buffer, 0, numRead);
                numWritten += numRead;
                this.speed= (int) (((double)
                buffer.length)/8);
                progress1 = (double) numWritten;
                this.progress=(int) progress1;
            }
        }
        catch (Exception ex)
        {
            echo("Unknown Error: " + ex);
        }
        finally
        {
            try
            {
                if (in != null)
                {
                    in.close();
                }
                if (out != null)
                {
                    out.close();
                }
            }
            catch (IOException ex)
            {
                echo("Unknown Error: " + ex);
            }
        }
    }

Answer 1

The same way you would measure anything.

System.nanoTime() returns a Long you can use to measure how long something takes:

Long start = System.nanoTime();
// do your read
Long end = System.nanoTime();

Now you have the number of nanoseconds it took to read X bytes. Do the math and you have your download rate.

More than likely you're looking for bytes per second. Keep track of the total number of bytes you've read, checking to see if one second has elapsed. Once one second has gone by figure out the rate based on how many bytes you've read in that amount of time. Reset the total, repeat.