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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. Lol. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Linux: Because sometimes you want slow and awful.

    1. Re:Lol. by ushering05401 · · Score: 5, Funny

      Linux, 'cause even Windows techs need real tools sometimes.

    2. Re:Lol. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

      Linux, 'cause even Windows techs can be a real tools sometimes.

      There, fixed that for ya!

    3. Re:Lol. by im_thatoneguy · · Score: 4, Funny

      Dear lord if you're going to troll... at least get the grammar right:

      Linux, 'cause even Windows techs can be real tools sometimes

  2. so.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Linux has to be forced to degrade network performance. Windows does it automatically.

    Did MS ever fix that 10 TCP/IP connection limit?

    1. Re:so.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      Did MS ever fix that 10 TCP/IP connection limit?

      What? So if I open a tenth browser tab I won't be abl

    2. Re:so.... by BattleApple · · Score: 5, Funny

      well at least it hit the submit button for you before crashing

  3. Seems like a lot of work by seebs · · Score: 4, Funny

    Why not just use a Vista box and play an MP3?

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    1. Re:Seems like a lot of work by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Because that would take a good 4 or 5 hours to install.

      But I guess MS would call that a strength of Vista: It takes hours to setup before it can fail while you can make Linux fail right away!

    2. Re:Seems like a lot of work by Tubal-Cain · · Score: 4, Funny

      my Windows NT 4.0 workstation box running on a Pentium 166Mhz machine would never skip playing an MP3 no matter what I threw at it.

      Try throwing bricks.

  4. Re:That's nothing... by mazarin5 · · Score: 2, Funny

    I like how you felt the need to provide a wikipedia link, just in case we wouldn't know what that was.

    Now if you'll excuse me, I think I hear some kids on my lawn.

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  5. Re:That's nothing... by mazarin5 · · Score: 3, Funny

    They were shocked when I introduced them to another tester who tested board games in the 1970's.

    Oh wow, so before video games people used to play with pieces of lumber? :D

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  6. However, he is a *spoiled* Windows fanboy by K.+S.+Kyosuke · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...as demonstrated by "VIM rocks" in his text.

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