How do I simulate a slow internet connection (Edge/3g) on a mac. Is there a Firefox plugin?

Question

Exact Duplicate: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/473465/firefox-plugin-to-simulate-slow-internet-connection

How do I simulate a slow internet connection (Edge/3g) on a Mac? Is there a Firefox plugin?

Answer 1

Not that I know of. If you want to see how things look when they're loading you can use firebug and set breakpoints in the javascript, or breakpoints on your server. I always use this technique to see how things look when they're loading.

Another option is NetLimiter, I've heard it works but haven't tried it myself http://www.netlimiter.com/

Answer 2

Charles and Fiddler are HTTP proxies that can throttle your speed, among other things. You can even tell your iPod or iPhone to use them, and capture all the traffic coming & going.

Answer 3

When I was evaluating how a piece of software would work with a bad cell-card connection, I wrapped some tin foil around the antenna. It sounds dumb, but it worked really well; the signal dropped down to a single bar but was not gone completely.

I also tried putting the laptop in a microwave which ended up being not nearly as effective.

Answer 4

On a mac or linux...just run

sudo ipfw pipe 1 config bw 350kbit/s plr 0.05 delay 500ms; sudo ipfw add pipe 1 dst-port http`

to reset

sudo ipfw flush

Answer 5

SpeedLimit does the trick for me.