create a "slow" connection?

curious problem:

to test how a big webpage (with some JS in it) is displayed on several
browsers when the connection is very slow I need to create a
download-connection (some kind of tunnel) with strictely limited bandwidth.

By now I just download fat things and connect at the same time, but I'd
prefer some kind of tunnel, proxy, socket whatever where I can define
the assigned bandwith. Thnx.

any tools? any idea?

thnx,
peter

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peter pilsl wrote:

>
> curious problem:
>
> to test how a big webpage (with some JS in it) is displayed on several
> browsers when the connection is very slow I need to create a
> download-connection (some kind of tunnel) with strictely limited
> bandwidth.
>
> By now I just download fat things and connect at the same time, but I'd
> prefer some kind of tunnel, proxy, socket whatever where I can define
> the assigned bandwith. Thnx.
>
> any tools? any idea?

Why not try using dial up?


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peter pilsl wrote:
>
> curious problem:
>
> to test how a big webpage (with some JS in it) is displayed on several
> browsers when the connection is very slow I need to create a
> download-connection (some kind of tunnel) with strictely limited bandwidth.
>
> By now I just download fat things and connect at the same time, but I'd
> prefer some kind of tunnel, proxy, socket whatever where I can define
> the assigned bandwith. Thnx.
>
> any tools? any idea?

tc.

part of the iproute2 package.

It allows you to set limits on outgoing traffic, thereby restricting the
bandwidth of the web server to anything you desire.

If you're /viewing/ on Linux, you can of course use this to restrict
incoming traffic, but note that limiting incoming traffic is
theoretically impossible; all you can do is *drop* everything over a
certain bandwidth, and hope the server gets the message...

If your distro supports it you can also try wondershaper, which does the
same thing (using the same programs) but has a... uhm more humane
interface ;-)

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