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I currently deploy with GAE (google app engine) and I try to implement some AJAX validation. So I got a couple text-fields and "spinners" (ajax loaders) which should be displayed when an AJAX request is sent. But I deploy on my local computer (localhost), so the GAE SDK reacts very fast on any request. It takes about 50-70 ms(miliseconds) to perform the whole ajax request, which is far far away from the real.

Is there a way to somehow simulate slow Internet connection? I just want to see how my "spinners" work. I want to test some ajax setting (jquery) about timeouts, errors and so on...

Any ideas ?

V-Light
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If you use a browser to simulate that, you can use Firefox Throttle, Internet Explorer Throttle or Fiddler.

kokbira
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Using linux you have a software called trickle that launches a process and limits its bandwidth usage.

RedGrittyBrick
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user39559
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I would check out Charles Proxy. It has bandwidth throttling and is cross-platform with a very clean interface.

Jacob Swartwood
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This is free and simple for Mac OS X and works with the every browser: speedlimit

Simonini
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You can use a "slow Internet connection" from a mobile phone (for example, GPRS). You must have a mobile phone that become a modem when connected to the PC and a carrier that provides that kind of connection.

For example, I can connect my LG phone in my computer and use a dial-up program (provided by LG) to perform a connection in TIM, my carrier. So, my internet connection is about 40kbps.

You will have a slow connection, but you cannot adjust its speed only with that.

kokbira
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