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		throw46365 on May 31, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Engineering for Slow Internet Yeah, though it doesn’t quite capture all of the experience of working with slower broadband. For example if you have a website that is meant to be used alongside a video call or while watching video, it’s difficult to really simulate all of that “feel”. Using a link that is slow in practice is an invaluable experience.

xandrius on May 31, 2024 [–]

You can install programs at software level to emulate it as a whole. I remember using one for OSX and it working pretty well.

Aachen on May 31, 2024 | [–]

In fact, you probably already have that program and just need to tell the OS what parameters you want

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