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> but it occurs to me there might be a market for a proxy/VPN that really does use 3G or 4G on a connection Why not just use tethering?
by ori_b 11y ago
> but it occurs to me there might be a market for a proxy/VPN that really does use 3G or 4G on a connection
Why not just use tethering?
- ck2 11y agoWell I mean on demand, as a service. http://www.webpagetest.org/ http://www.webpagetest.org/ does this for waterfalls, you can select real-world 2G/3G and even LTE
- ori_b 11y agoYes, and I mean what does doing it "as a service" bring over just pushing a button on your phone to act as a hotspot?
- mentat 11y agoScale? Selection of scenarios? Offload of some management?
- ck2 11y agoWhat if you have a first-world problem and your cell service is too good and reliable - even forcing the phone to 2G/3G service is not simulation enough.
- pyvpx 11y agothe you spend some time defining what a typical 2G and 3G connection looks like to your end users, and then you replicate that with existing tools. There are very, very many open source solutions to adding latency, jitter, throttling bandwidth, and replicating packet loss. in fact, I'd argue that coming up with a few solid definitions of what a 2G and 3G connection look like is far more accurate than running tests over one dongle "IRL"