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If you're on FreeBSD you can use dummynet to simulate packet delay and loss. It's quite handy. My partner has slow, unreliable, high-latency Internet in his h
by kwis 15y ago
If you're on FreeBSD you can use dummynet to simulate packet delay and loss.
It's quite handy. My partner has slow, unreliable, high-latency Internet in his house and there are an entire class of performance problems that are extremely obvious when I work from his place that are barely measurable when I work from a 100mb line that's only a few milliseconds away from a major datacenter.
- rimantas 15y agoAnd if you are on OS X (and have Xcode installed), look into Developer->Applications->Utilities->Network Link Conditioner.
- infinite_snoop 15y agoIf you are in the UK you can simply choose Virgin as your broadband provider to achieve the same effect.
- Will_Price 15y agoOr talktalk, I don't even get cable out here in the country...
- yardie 15y agoThanks! I didn't even realize that was there.
- robin_reala 15y agoOr if you’re on any OS with Java installed, try Sloppy: http://www.dallaway.com/sloppy/ http://www.dallaway.com/sloppy/
- rvavruch 15y agoI second Sloppy. I've found it very useful for debugging Flash errors that only happen occasionally. By slowing the loading sometimes them become reproducible. It's also useful to see how a webpage loads on a slow connection - for example: is your copy legible before your background image has loaded?