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Products that do what AirplaneMode – Simulate realistic airplane WiFi on macOS does

I needed to test how my app performed on airplane WiFi and found that existing tools (Network Link Conditioner, comcast, Chrome DevTools, etc) weren't sufficient. AirplaneMode is a macOS CLI and menu bar app that uses a local MASQUE relay to provide: 1. Jitter. All of the mac os network simulators I tried apply a fixed constant delay with no jitter model. Real airplane satellite WiFi follows a log-normal distribution — most packets arrive near base RTT, but a few percent spike to 5-10x. AirplaneMode samples jitter from a log-normal distribution fit to real flight measurements. 2. Userspace,…

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