Throttling http on localhost to simulate dial-up connection

[Jim Higson]

I'm using FC2 for web development at the moment, with Apache running on my 
localhost.

The problem is that connecting to localhost is ultra-fast doesn't give a 
realistic impression of the speed of the pages I create.

I've done some googling and seen there are modules called mod_bandwidth and 
mod_throttle, but don't know what the difference between them is, nor how to 
use them with Red Hat/Fedora Linux.

Can anyone suggest what I should do next? Ideally I would like to know which 
module to use, if it is included with Fedora's httpd and some pointers on 
configuring it.

Thanks,

[Tom Mitchell]

On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 07:02:03PM +0000, Jim Higson wrote:
> I'm using FC2 for web development at the moment, with Apache running on my 
> localhost.
>
> The problem is that connecting to localhost is ultra-fast doesn't give a 
> realistic impression of the speed of the pages I create.

Look into serial line IP.
Setting up a serial line IP link is not hard
and will let you see what dial up speed looks like.
i.e. local dial up.

You could hack loopback  but that would be so very painfull.