[GTALUG] How do I demonstrate a crappy network?

[Alvin Starr]

Well I have a cottage network.

The DSL backhaul to Toronto seems to have been done with 2 tin cans and 
a string.

God bless Bell.....

On 1/19/21 7:19 AM, David Collier-Brown via talk wrote:
>
> I'm working on an article about advances in Linux networking (eg, 
> Cake), but with a demonstration anyone can do, to convince doubters.
>
> 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.
>
> But it doesn't /visibly/ fail.
>
> What is something that I can make fail, either audibly or visually? 
> Showing my grandmother ping statistics isn't going to work (;-))
>
> --dave
>
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