Test modem browsing

[MasterRacker]

Assuming you only have a broadband connection, short of going to someone elses' house who has a modem, does anyone have a good way to test how your smoothly your site will render for a modem user?

[purple]Jeff
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[Foamcow]

Stand on your network cable?
;-)

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[hotfusion]

Maybe install a dial-up modem, connect to a regular line and subscribe to a pay-as-you-go ISP service.

You will only be charged for the small amount of time you spend loading the pages under test, and the broadband connection should be unaffected.


Regards, Andy.
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[BabyJeffy]

There are some commercial software packages that will do this for you:

http://www.bandwidthcontroller.com/

http://www.homeqos.com/

I'm sure there are plenty more - these are just 2 that I had links to handy.

Cheers,
Jeff

 

[MasterRacker]

Foamcow, I was considering dusting off my knot tying book from my rock climbing days. ;-)

hotfusion, I just celebrated physically removing my modem this weekend so that's exactly the opposite of whit I'm trying to do. The modem came out and the beer went in.

Jeff, Those are the kinds of things I was looking for. I was having poor luck coming weeding through the google noise. I'll check those out.

[purple]Jeff
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[taylorantone]

You can always set up IIS on your Windows XP or Windows server system, then throttle the bandwidth of the HTTP server back to mimic that of a dial-up line.

I don't know if there's a way to just inhibit your network bandwidth in general. If there is, it would be an OS-specific thing, so a Goole search would be best.