Apple wants me to give the user a friendly apology if I can\'t find an internet connection. Using the Reachability Demo, this was easy enough. I want to take it a step further a
Searching for similar need i.e. simulating a lossy wifi network connection on real device, I figured out how to do it :) I connected my MacBook Pro on ethernet and shared my Wifi connection to the device. Using Apple's Network Link Conditioner Prefpane then let me played with the connection quality. Very useful to simulate 3G, Edge and other baudrate.
Next step : find and buy a usb wifi adapter working on MAC OS X to let all of us (developpers team) to test without wiring each computer to ethernet.
Hope this will help some of you.