Is there a way to simulate a bad wifi connection?

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#1

There seems to be a bug in my game, but i cant figure out what causes it because i cant get it to happen for myself in studio.

The issue only seems to happen to people with a somewhat bad connection.

Is there a way to simulate a poor connection in roblox studio so that everything loads very slow from the client to the server?

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#2

I think you can use this to simulate poor connections.

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#3

I have tried that, but it didn’t seem to have the same effect.

#4

Hmm, if you have access to your router’s interface, I’m sure you can throttle your connection there, though the interface varies on models so I can’t help you with that.

#5

Did you try it in a test server or just solo? I believe it only works in a test server.

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#6

I have tried it in a test server, i always use test servers.

#7

I tested it, and Incomming Replication Lag does work in Solo too. Make sure you reset Studio after you set the property.

Here’s a simple way to test it: Set up a RemoteFunction that simply returns nil or something on the server. Then call it on the client and measure the time it takes.

Here’s what I did:

-- Server:
local rf = Instance.new("RemoteFunction")
rf.Parent = game.ReplicatedStorage
rf.OnServerInvoke = function()
	return true
end

-- Client:
local rf = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage"):WaitForChild("RemoteFunction")

while (true) do
	local start = tick()
	rf:InvokeServer()
	print(("%.2f"):format(tick() - start))
	wait(1)
end

If I set the Incomming Replication Lag to 1, then my print statement usually printed out about 2 seconds per request (because it’s lag in both directions, so it will be double the replication lag time to send and receive).

Also they misspelled “Incoming” which is quite annoying

#8

You could also try clumsy for for finer control over simulating bad connections.

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#9

It does work, but the issue does not appear. It doesn’t make the issue show up.