How to throttle network traffic for environment simulation?

Question

Hello!

I'm trying to test an application that uses a database connection. What I would like to do is throttling the bandwith to, say, 1 MBit or such to get a better feeling for the application under realistic conditions.

I already use Wireshark to have a look at the communication with the DB and I expected Wireshark to have a feature like that but as it seems there is no way to do something like that.

Any suggestions?

Answer 1

Take a look at Trickle. Also, if you are using a router, commercial-grade router firmware generally has some QoS traffic-shaping services.

Answer 2

If you can test it out at the endpoint you could try using a browser throttler. One example is Firefox Throttle.

Answer 3

A program called BWMeter can do this.