Simulating Slow Connection Speed

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Simulating Slow Connection Speed

How can I emulate a dial-up connection?

ericjust

9:13 pm on Apr 24, 2007 (gmt 0)

I am wondering if anyone knows how I can emulate a slower internet connection. I would like to test load times for 56k and slower modems. I am using a cable modem. Is there a way to emulate a slower speed?

I have found a couple of programs:

Speed Limiter
XAT's WebSpeed Simulator

I cannot get either of them to work.

Any suggestions would be most appreciated!

Thanks!

Philosopher

9:16 pm on Apr 24, 2007 (gmt 0)

check out "sloppy".

It's free and works perfectly.

ericjust

11:17 am on Apr 25, 2007 (gmt 0)

Sloppy works great. Thank you Philosopher!

benevolent001

11:48 am on Apr 25, 2007 (gmt 0)

If you are using Dreamweaver it shows how many seconds page would take to load at particular speed

wrgvt

7:38 pm on Apr 25, 2007 (gmt 0)

Just come over to my house, dial-up, and cuss a lot waiting for pages to load. Ah, the rural life. Can't get cable, can't get DSL, can't get cell phone service, can't get pizza delivered.

ericjust

7:58 pm on Apr 25, 2007 (gmt 0)

Sloppy works great except a couple things:

Ajax calls and session cookies.
I'm guessing this is because Sloppy acts as a proxy server and so the domain no longer matches.

The other problem is links... they don't work if the URL is not relative (e.g. http://www.example.com/test.php as opposed to /test.php). Perhaps this is also affecting the Ajax calls.

I will have to experiment.

In the meantime I will consider your offer wrgvt. I can bring pizza! :-)