Bad Internet Box
Test Your Applications Easily By Simulating Bad Internet Connectivity With A Custom Hotspot
Test Your Applications Easily By Simulating Bad Internet Connectivity With A Custom Hotspot
The Bad Internet Box is a Raspberry Pi-powered device with custom firmware that simulates a hotspot with poor internet connection. When set up, it provides you with a Wi-Fi hotspot. It can be used to test the applications under various preset internet connectivity simulations or “Bad Internet Levels”.
When connected to the Wi-Fi hotspot, it can access the internet quality settings via the browser by navigating the present IP address and adjusting the settings according to your preference.
When real internet connections degrade, they primarily degrade via packet drop. This may or may not intermittently disconnect the links between the phone or the computer and the server. This is not usually simulated by proxy software or by browser simulation settings.
Browser and proxy simulations usually implement bandwidth, but this is not sufficient for testing how your applications will fare in a real-world situation. Browser and proxy simulations are not comparable to a physical hotspot.
As this is a physical hotspot, you can provide on-site verification with poor internet connectivity and, a user can connect a real device, like a cellphone, to the hotspot with a real app and see how it performs in a real-world situation.
To ensure your app can reach the largest share of users in developing countries, it needs to be accessible under various bandwidth conditions. Your Quality Assurance Department is responsible for checking how the application works under differing conditions, and the BIB can help you achieve the best results. When your application needs to work in remote areas, normal internet connection simulations don't perform as they should. You cannot simulate the fluctuating internet of third-world, rural areas without likely experiencing connectivity loss, therefore you won't know what the client is experiencing. BIB allows your team to see exactly what a user in these areas experience and the faults they may experience can be fully repaired before rolling it out into a live environment.
The internet in rural parts of developing nations is limited by a lower penetration rate when compared to the rest of the world. Measurable parameters such as the number of ISP subscriptions, overall number of hosts, IXP traffic, and overall available bandwidth are indicators that Africa is far behind the "digital divide". However, your applications need to be accessible to these users as well. Without testing on the BIB, your applications run the risk of not functioning as expected in areas with low internet connectivity. This is because browser-simulated low connectivity will not perfectly simulate the real-world effects of packet loss on applications.
Losing power will reset the device to the default settings.
The BIB has five easy-to-change configurations for internet quality.
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