From: Oleg Goldshmidt (pub_at_nonexisting.hamakor.org.il)
Date: Tue 15 Jun 2004 - 19:25:38 IDT
Yedidyah Bar-David <didi_at_tau.ac.il> writes:
> On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 02:47:38PM +0300, Gal Gur-Arie wrote:
> >
> > Does anyone know if there is a way to simulate a dial-up connection speed ?
> > I want to find out how a web site performs on dial-up connection.
Out of curiousity: why simulate? How difficult is it to test with a
real dial-up connection?
> The common answer in the corporate world is a set of products from a
> company named 'Shunra'.
It's been a few years, but IIRC Shunra is rather expensive.
> I know there are already a few free alternatives, I only used one of
> them, called nistnet, which seems to be dead.
> Gooling for 'shunra nistnet' is probably a good start.
To save you a bit of Googling, here are a few URLs from my old
bookmarks. I cannot recommend any of these because I have not looked
at this stuff for ages (ages in internet time, but still...). Hope
this will help you get started. I don't remember whether any of these
will let you simulate the bandwidth of a dial-up connection (I think
NIST Net does). They may let you play with latency, packet loss, maybe
jitter (I doubt the latter). Some of them may have a different
purpose, e.g. protocol debugging, and will not be suitable. I don't
remember which is which, though I suspect NIST Net is closer to what
you need than the others.
NIST: http://www.itl.nist.gov/div892/itg/carson/nistnet/index.html
NS-2: http://www.isi.edu/nsnam/ns/
REAL: http://www.cs.cornell.edu/skeshav/real/overview.html
CNET: http://www.csse.uwa.edu.au/cnet/
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