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Well I have a cottage network.<br>
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The DSL backhaul to Toronto seems to have been done with 2 tin cans
and a string.<br>
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God bless Bell.....<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 1/19/21 7:19 AM, David Collier-Brown
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<p>I'm working on an article about advances in Linux networking
(eg, Cake), but with a demonstration anyone can do, to convince
doubters. <br>
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<p>I therefor need a way to show how crappy someone's network is.
I tried Skype "echo" calls and an couple of similar approaches,
then tried playing you-tube videos, all while throwing a load on
the network.</p>
<p>But it doesn't <i>visibly</i> fail.</p>
<p>What is something that I can make fail, either audibly or
visually? Showing my grandmother ping statistics isn't going to
work (;-))</p>
<p>--dave<br>
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