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That's really convoluted to simulate bad network. Here is an easy route if you are on OS X: get Apple's Network Link Conditioner [1], a System Preferences panel
by riobard 13y ago
That's really convoluted to simulate bad network. Here is an easy route if you are on OS X: get Apple's Network Link Conditioner [1], a System Preferences panel plugin. Once installed, tune your network to 3G Lossy and test again.
[1]: http://adcdownload.apple.com/Developer_Tools/hardware_io_tools_for_xcode_4.4__late_july_2012/xcode44hwiotools6938115a.dmg http://adcdownload.apple.com/Developer_Tools/hardware_io_too...
- mattezell 13y agoThat won't impress hipsters.
- skyebook 13y agoAnd it even shows up under the Developer pane in Settings on your iPhone! It's incredibly helpful.
- javajosh 13y agoThat link doesn't work, but these instructions do:[1] Xcode > Open Developer Tool > More Developer Tools... and get "Hardware IO Tools for Xcode". http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9659382/installing-apples-network-link-conditioner-tool http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9659382/installing-apples...
- kevinSuttle 13y agoThe test is about download performance and cacheability, though Apple's Network Link Conditioner is useful.
- riobard 13y agoDefine “performance“ and “cacheability”.
- kevinSuttle 13y agoFront-end Performance: both actual and user-perceived. Cacheability: How well dynamic and static assets cache, and are retrieved from cache. This also has an effect on performance.
- riobard 13y agoNone of the above has anything unique to do with testing on a floppy drive. You need a good way to simulate different network conditions, and a good inspector to check the various states on the client.
- Millennium 13y agoWhat OS are you on, if floppies are convoluted?
- riobard 13y agoIt's 2013 and we are using a floppy drive to simulate high network latency. If that's not convoluted, I'm not sure what else could be.
- Millennium 13y agoWhat makes it more complicated than loading the files from anywhere else?
- riobard 13y agoLike finding a USB floppy drive and a floppy disk in 2013?
- Millennium 13y agoA search for "floppy disk" on newegg.com returned 52 results. There was some noise to deal with, but the most expensive drive I could find was $30. The whole process took less than five minutes. Nothing complicated whatsoever.
- riobard 13y agoWe definitely have very different ideas of “complicated”.