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Posted by Jim Higson on 06/20/06 21:34
joshbeall@gmail.com wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Does anyone happen to know of software that can be used to throttle a
> network connection, so you can see how long a pageload would take on a
> slower connection?
>
> For instance, let's say I wanted to watch how long it took for my page
> to load on a modem. If I had software that could throttle my network
> interface down, I would then request the page and watch it.
>
> Bonus points if it can throttle the loopback device, because then I can
> request the page from localhost and it will still work.
>
> Running XP Pro.
>
> I know one can determine the total amount of data downloaded, then
> detemine speed at which a 56k modem would download it... but I think it
> would give me a better sense of load times if I could actually throttle
> the connection and *see* how long it takes.
>
> Any suggestions?
I use a little Perl script called ip_relay.pl that can bind any remote
server/port combo to a local port with throttling.
So I run my localhost server on port 80, and a throttled relay to
localhost:80 on port 8080. Works really well here. Don't know how it'd do
on Windows, but might be worth a try.
There are also a modules for Apache called mod_throttle and mod_bandwidth
that might be able to help. I haven't played with them much though.
--
Jim
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