Show HN: Slowy app, Real-world connection simulator and bandwidth limiter • Hacker News Board

Re: Show HN: Slowy app, Real-world connection simulator and bandwidth limiter

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Post by dkubb » Wed, Nov 30, 2011, 9:46 PM UTC

Maro wrote: post #8

pitchblack wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm pretty sure Network Link Conditioner is the same.

I think the author would be better off giving it away for free, earning goodwill and making a name for his dev shop, then releasing other apps to all the people who now are aware of him.

It's possible that within the Mac App developer community he might earn goodwill by giving it away, but I don't think it's going to make a difference for the average users.

I can't recall the names of any dev shops for the OSX products I have purchased, much less the ones I use for free.

I have no problem with people selling simple tools that make built-in features more accessible.

Re: Show HN: Slowy app, Real-world connection simulator and bandwidth limiter

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Post by lrizzo » Wed, Nov 30, 2011, 10:51 PM UTC

exDM69 wrote: post #11

I'd like to have something like this for Linux. Anyone got any tips how to set something like this up? Command line and kernel option hacking preferred to GUI gadgets. I would need to test my virtual-connection-over-UDP code with packet loss, latency and incorrect packet order delivery and I really wouldn't want to write code inside my app to test.

i believe this tool (and the one in Lion/XCode) uses ipfw+dummynet, which is available also for linux/openwrt and windows at http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/dummynet/ (you can find also some documentation material there).

Re: Show HN: Slowy app, Real-world connection simulator and bandwidth limiter

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Post by nsfmc » Wed, Nov 30, 2011, 10:59 PM UTC

i was always a big fan of sloppy http://www.dallaway.com/sloppy/ and hadn't bothered to look for alternatives, but the other projects here are equally heartening and have... less java

Re: Show HN: Slowy app, Real-world connection simulator and bandwidth limiter

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Post by alby115 » Fri, Dec 02, 2011, 5:05 PM UTC

Hi guys, I'm the developer of the application. Thank you for all your comments. I'll take them into consideration while trying to improve the rough edges and missing features of Slowy for the next update. I'll update the website soon (http://slowyapp.com), completing the FAQ section and adding a new blog section.