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Making Your Connection Bad


This is directly inspired by Engineering for Slow Internet. I figured I’d give running with dogshit internet on my desktop and phone a go to see how poorly (or well!) specific applications behave. This is not an in-depth review of the behavior, but just my general impressions running for a few hours on 200kbit internet with significant packet loss.

This is not an in-depth review of the behavior, but just my general impressions running for a few hours on 200kbit internet with significant packet loss. Though some other programs on your system may Not Like It if localhost is slow, so do that at your own risk :3 (Be sure to replace enp3s0 with lo on the undo script!) But for testing “Hey, does this application utterly shit itself if it doesn’t have a fast network?”, that’s just fine.

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