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AIRKRFT

Reputation:

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

Exact Duplicate: https://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?

Upvotes: 6

Views: 13837

Answers (6)

Chris
Chris

Reputation: 3344

On a Mac or BSD, use:

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

And to reset to your initial settings:

sudo ipfw flush

Upvotes: 19

gutch
gutch

Reputation: 7139

Apple now have an official developer tool called Network Link Conditioner which simulates different network conditions. It has some more powerful features that alternatives like SpeedLimit and Charlie — for example it can simulate packet loss and DNS delays as well as bandwidth and latency — and it is free.

Network Link Conditioner is provided with Xcode, with is a free download but is also a very large download!

Apple Xcode Network Link Conditioner

Ref: https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/24066/how-to-simulate-slow-internet-connections-on-the-mac

Upvotes: 17

jbrennan
jbrennan

Reputation: 12003

SpeedLimit does the trick for me.

Upvotes: 8

Brian
Brian

Reputation: 5956

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.

Upvotes: 0

Chris Lundie
Chris Lundie

Reputation: 6023

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.

Upvotes: 4

GBa
GBa

Reputation: 18387

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/

Upvotes: -1

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