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Re:Offer HN: I'll test your web app from Tanzania by LukeB_UK on Monday March 02, 2015 @04:03PM (#9134304)
Chrome has a network throttling emulation in the dev tools too: https://developer.chrome.com/devtools/docs/device-mode
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Re:Offer HN: I'll test your web app from Tanzania by taude on Monday March 02, 2015 @04:21PM (#9134404)
One thing I wish I was able to do in the Chrome tools is to set my bandwith and latency preferences manually...
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Re:Offer HN: I'll test your web app from Tanzania by teraflop on Monday March 02, 2015 @08:49PM (#9135658)
Somebody opened an issue on the Chromium bug tracker asking for the ability to customize those parameters. The Chromium devs added another preset and marked it as "fixed" even though it clearly isn't.

https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=441858

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Re:Offer HN: I'll test your web app from Tanzania by IgorPartola on Monday March 02, 2015 @05:02PM (#9134641)
Yes! There is a huge jump between DSL and Wi-Fi. Adding the ability to randomly drop out the network would be nice too.
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Re:Offer HN: I'll test your web app from Tanzania by Kiro on Tuesday March 03, 2015 @02:57AM (#9136573)
It doesn't affect things like Web Sockets though.
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