Throttling http on localhost to simulate dial-up connection

Nifty Hat Mitch mitch48 at sbcglobal.net
Mon Mar 7 01:29:11 UTC 2005


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.


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