Web service for testing remote users’ ability to receive multimedia stream with certain bit rate

This article presents a new web service Multimedia Quality Network (MQN) and a web application Multimedia Quality Tester (MQT) developed for quick testing of remote users’ ability to receive multimedia streams transmitted in real time mode with a certain bit rate. To determine the ability of remote users to receive a certain stream a criterion assessing the quality of multimedia streams is used. Upon test completion on the web service MQN, the user obtains information about the most appropriate bit rate for the existing network connection. The web service MQN and the web application MQT can be used both in wired and Wi-Fi networks.