Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Degrade Your Own Network

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the why-the-hell-not dept.

cryptonix writes: "This device seems pretty cool. it attaches to your network and allows you to degrade network preformance (for testing purposes only of course). runs on windows and supports gigabit ethernet or 10/100 networks. There's more info at emprix's site about the PacketSphere." Alright, that's funny as hell, and frankly a really good idea.

5 of 88 comments (clear)

  1. Dummynet? by CWCarlson · · Score: 5

    It sounds like this device does exactly what the Dummynet feature in FreeBSD (and others, possibly?) does. I've been throttling back NNTP grabs by Leafnode, big downloads, and so on for a while now, to keep my WAN connection from being flooded.

    Of course, it doesn't exactly run on Windows...

    --- Chris

  2. Looks expensive by selectspec · · Score: 5

    Wouldn't an AOL subscription be alot cheaper?

    --

    Someone you trust is one of us.

    1. Re:Looks expensive by angry+old+man · · Score: 5
      Bagh,

      Back in my day we didn't AOL or all of this fancy schmancy network performance degraders. If we wanted to slow down network performance, we would just hold the phone handset about 2 inches away from the modem cradle and then loudly shout. Nowadays, all you lazy kids with your fast 100 Mb connections complain when quake 3 doesn't get a ping rate less than 50. If it wasn't for all that wasted bandwidth, the internet would still be only used for DoD research like it was intended, and like any hardworking network should be used for.

      Bagh!

      --
      -vax computer, vi, lynx. 'nuf said
  3. Hell Yeah! by number+one+duck · · Score: 5

    I can work for years by hiding that gizmo somewhere at work, fixing the problem then repeating somewhere else in the building.
    Woohoo!

  4. Network degradation by kryps · · Score: 5

    The slashdot effect will teach them what network degradation really means. ;-) kryps