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Using Linux To Make a Slow, Awful WAN Connection

Posted by timothy on from the too-bad-to-be-true dept.

Julie188 writes "This is a brilliant little Linux trick from Windows fanboy Tyson Kopczynski. He wanted to test a new Windows 7 feature called Branch Cache, which caches remote data on the local machine to reduce traffic on a stressed out WAN connection. But how to fake a crappy WAN? Linux. 'The command that I executed (tc) made use of Linux Traffic Control (a kernel thing) which allows me to easily interject 100ms latency on eth1. Boff, Bonk, Pow, Plop, Kapow, swa-a-p, whamm, zzzzzwap, bam ... instant WAN crappiness,' he writes."

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  1. Quality reporting by timmarhy · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    this is the kind of quality stories i've come to expect from kdawson/timothy.

    and you wonder why we all choke with laughter when you expect to be considered journalists.

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    If you mod me down, I will become more powerful than you can imagine....
  2. Re:Lol. by EthanV2 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    It's funny how the post mocking Linux gets modded Flamebait, yet the post mocking Windows gets (Score:5, Funny)