How to test a site for low bandwidth?

Question

I\'m developing a web application for mobile browsers. Right now most of development is done on local machines (with local apache) and I\'d like to test how it behaves in lo

Answer 1

You may want to give Sloppy a try.

UPDATE: @SamSaffron posted a cool gist: https://gist.github.com/2132065 to inject 300ms latency into the network stack

#!/bin/sh
ipfw -q -f flush

ipfw add pipe 1 in
ipfw add pipe 2 out
ipfw pipe 1 config bw 512Kbit/s queue 30 delay 150ms
ipfw pipe 2 config bw 2Mbit/s queue 10 delay 150ms
ipfw -q add allow all from any to any