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nottorptoday at 7:33 PM3 repliesview on HN

In the same direction, I once wanted to test an embedded device on crap wifi.

So I just ordered the cheapest AP I could find.

Except the damn device worked perfectly. Slow but rock solid.

One of our testers at $CURRENT_JOB also has trouble simulating a crap network, because our network is good.


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gnopgniptoday at 8:27 PM

You can simulate bad wifi with the throttling option on the network tab of your browser's developer tools

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Groxxtoday at 7:48 PM

Some proxies, iptables extensions, and OS-provided tools exist - there's almost certainly a combo that would work for them. What platform?

Unless it's for a custom physical device, then uh. idk. Probably something, proxying through another computer that is hosting a separate wifi network? But likely a lot harder.

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