How do I simulate a low bandwidth, high latency environment?

testing bandwidth latency
Nic picture Nic · Sep 25, 2008 · Viewed 160.6k times · Source

I need to simulate a low bandwidth, high latency connection to a server in order to emulate the conditions of a VPN at a remote site. The bandwidth and latency should be tweakable so I can discover the best combination in order to run our software package.

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Jon Colverson picture Jon Colverson · Mar 12, 2012

For macOS, there is the Network Link Conditioner that simulates configurable bandwidth, latency, and packet loss. It is contained in the Additional Tools for Xcode package. Screenshot

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