Simulated dial up

[dougie]

I've been on ADSL for about 3 years and I've got no idea how quick or slow my website would be to someone on dialup.
It would be good if there was somewhere that could give you a simulated viewing on a dial up - I know you can calculate images and look at page size etc, but it would be good - any ideas?

[isitreal]

Many Dsl providers give you some free dialup minutes every month so you can connect using by modem when you are traveling, if yours does, just set that up, plug in your modem assuming you have one, set up a new internet connection for the dialup connection, then switch your connection to dialup when you want to test that, it's pretty easy to do.

[mack]

if you are running on an apache server I belive there is a module that would help you out.

It is called (i belive) "mod_throttle" and controls the download speed from the server.

not quite what you want but might help.

Mack.

[dougie]

Many thanks for the ideas - much appreciated.

[benihana]

you could maybe try a search for charles throttling.

(dont put it in quotes - that just shows a ww post on the same subject :))

its a shareware app that, among other things, does exactly what you need.

[dougie]

benihana - looks perfect - many thanks.

At first glance, it looks a little complex, I'm only a newbie at all this :) Is it easy to do?

[benihana]

havent used it for a while, but i think you can just select the throttling options to be 56k, and then just choose 'start throttling'.

if you have any bother let me know and ill dig it out and get proper instructions.

ben

[dougie]

Much appreciated, if I get any probs, I'll let you know.

Many thanks.