How can I slow down my Network Connection?

[requested89]

I have to regularly test things over a slow internet connection as part of my work and I just wondered if it is possible to slow my network card down to try and acheive this?

Is there some way I can set it so that my Network Card is limited to 5kb/s for example? It doesn't have to be very precise just approximate.

Thanks in advance,

Chris

 

[edfair]

Dual speed 10/100 can generaly be set to 10 with a configuration utility.

You can sometimes set the card to simplex with the same utility. That will slow things down. But the actual communications will still be at 10.

You could also look for a slowdown program. That would slow the data throughput. Try a search for moslo. That is one.

Ed Fair
Give the wrong symptoms, get the wrong solutions.

 

[kmcferrin]

Switch to AOL?

Just kidding. Moslo probably won't help you much since it will slow down the entire system (it is usually used to slow down PCs to play older games that are too fast on new hardware). I don't know of any utility that will slow down your network connection, but there may be one. My suggestion for testing purposes though is to actually test in the same environment that the users will be using. Slowing down your network card still will not produce the same conditions as using a dialup modem (line noise, serial conversion, etc).

 

[requested89]

I'm not too fussed about getting an accurate user experience as it isn't necessary for what I am doing.

The app I have been using a trial off is SoftPerfect Bandwidth Limiter which is a really good tool but I can't really justify paying for it which is why I wondered if there was someway of achieving the same results within Windows somehow. I thought maybe there would be a way to specify that the NIC on a computer could only download at a maximum speed of X bps.

Thanks anyway,

Chris