Tim wrote:
There are throttling options for proxy servers, like Squid, so you could try browsing through it (when throttled) to see a slower network response. But that's not really a true test, slow networks have latency issues, too, not just slower throughput.
You could have a look at http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/networking/netem#Emula... which tells you how to emulate all sorts of networking problems with a filter built right into the Fedora kernel and a one-line root command.
(This came in really handy demonstrating why a UK-based website with lots of reasonably small graphics was slow when Australians were looking at it…)
Tip: don’t forget to replace eth0 with whatever your network device is called these days.
Hope this helps,
James.