Comcast: Simulating shitty network connections so you can build better systems
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HN comment orderThe greatest part of this project is that if you ever get sued for trademark infringement, you can force their lawyers to have to explain why anyone could possibly confuse the product of Comcast Corp. with making your internet as flakey and slow as possible.
Nice. It'd be neat to include options to simulate other pathological conditions often encountered in the field like: - Multiple layers of NAT - overlapping un-synchronized timeouts are one thing ... but the REAL fun comes in when intermediate layers have the same IP ranges as IPs you are trying to reach on the "outside" of the NAT sandwich. All kinds of "interesting" things can happen, like the "software laser": http://catb.org/jargon/html/S/software-laser.html - Stateful NATs/firewalls with bizarrely short…
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| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
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| 2014-11-13 | Comcast: Simulating shitty network connections so you can build better systems | tombenner | 2 | 0 |
| 2015-01-28 | Comcast: Simulating shitty network connections so you can build better systemsFirst breakout | ot | 330 | 80 |
| 2018-06-23 | Comcast: Simulating shitty network connections so you can build better systems | LopRabbit | 3 | 0 |
| 2022-07-16 | Comcast: Simulating shitty network connections so you can build better systemsBest thread · Latest 20+ point return | olalonde | 370 | 138 |