Making connection slower

Sounds weird, but...

[Sinner_G]

The problem is I surf the net through a very fast connection (enterprise LAN). So when I look at sites, they come up very fast, no long load times. One the other hand, I know I am the exception and most users out there use a modem and have to wait a long time for pages/images to load.

So what I would like to do is slow down my connection from time to time when I want to test sites. Is that possible (using Win2000 and IE6)?

[Brett_Tabke]

I know we've had this discussion a few times before, but I can't seem to find it in the site search engine.

I don't think we ever found a general consensus. Some suggestions:

Start a huge download in the back ground. (ummm, like an odp rdf dump or several mp3's).
Use something like "leech ftp" client where you can control it's download rate. Set it at some percentage - what's left over is your speed.

[mack]

Some WYSIWYG editors give you a time taken for your page to download, you can specify the connection speed and it works it out. I know Frontpage offers this, not sure how accurate it is though.