Download speed restricter

May 17, 2005 2:45 PM

A question asked before, but I can't find it. Anyone know any free utilities that are easy to use, to allow a web developer to simulate a slow connection speed on what is actually a high speed line ? For the purposes of testing a graphically intensive website/web app on a low bandwith line. Thanks.
posted by superfurry to Computers & Internet (7 answers total)

Dreamweaver and any number of other HTML editors will tell you how long a given page would likely take to download at a given max connection speed. ... or were you after the actual bandwidth throttling to get an idea of, say, what streaming media would be like?
posted by Tuwa at 2:47 PM on May 17, 2005

http://www.dallaway.com/sloppy/
posted by ori at 2:52 PM on May 17, 2005

Or I could tell you, myself. :'(
posted by ori at 2:52 PM on May 17, 2005

Here's another.
posted by Zed_Lopez at 4:01 PM on May 17, 2005

On a related point, are there utilities that'll do this for ports other than 80 (specifically port No 3389)
posted by seanyboy at 4:06 PM on May 17, 2005

Depending on how technical you want to get, there's NIST Net (Linux), and dummynet (BSD, preconfigured floppy image available). They will let you tweak speed, latency, and packet loss. These may be overkill for simple website testing.
posted by RikiTikiTavi at 4:11 PM on May 17, 2005

NetLimiter is shareware with a 28 day trial. Does the job just nicely.
posted by furtive at 4:18 PM on May 17, 2005