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I'm currently testing this on a slow connection from an airport lounge in India. It's a pretty frustrating experience: I click on an image and receive no feedba
by nkoren 14y ago
I'm currently testing this on a slow connection from an airport lounge in India. It's a pretty frustrating experience: I click on an image and receive no feedback about whether the click has registered. Sometimes the full image appears after 5-10 seconds, sometimes it never appears. Sometimes I click several times in the interim, and get weird results.
But I bet it is quite nice on a higher-speed connection.
This raises a question for me: what is the best way to simulate/create a low-speed connection, for UI testing purposes?
- jskopek 14y agoCharles (http://www.charlesproxy.com/ http://www.charlesproxy.com/) has been a permanent addition to my toolkit for this exact reason. Cross platform, cross browser HTTP monitoring and proxying with throttling and all sorts of goodies. I believe there are several pure-CLI ways of doing this as well, but Charles is $40 well spent.
- hmottestad 14y agoOn unix you can set up a pipe on the network with a speed limit. Also, if you are on osx you can use apples own network simulator: http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/24066/how-to-simulate-slow-internet-connections-on-the-mac http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/24066/how-to-simula...
- MasterScrat 14y agoI use Sloppy for this: http://www.dallaway.com/sloppy/ http://www.dallaway.com/sloppy/ SO topic on this subject: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1094760/network-tools-that-simulate-slow-network-connection http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1094760/network-tools-tha...
- wesley 14y agoOS X has the Network Link Conditioner (installed by Xcode).