[LRUG] Downloading images quickly

[Tom Stuart]

On 5 Feb 2013, at 11:31, David Burrows wrote:
> I use Charles (http://www.charlesproxy.com/) to simulate slow connections, you can just add a latency in to the throttling settings. There's also Apple's Network Link Conditioner, used to come with XCode but not any more, think you need to download the OS X hardware tools from Apple so you may need a dev center login.

Oh, duh, that's a good point — of course you can just throttle the real HTTP connection instead of making a fake one.

Another way of doing this on OS X is to use ipfw pipes; see http://barkingiguana.com/2009/12/04/simulating-slow-or-laggy-network-connections-in-os-x/ for details.

Cheers,
-Tom