I required today the ability to throttle my Internet speed as I was attempting to debug a problem which only occurred when the connection was slow, or there was very little bandwidth available to work with. I had used a program before which allowed you to enable in software a “bandwidth limiter” which allowed me to simulate 56K and below modem speeds. I hadn’t used this program in a while and was on the hunt as I found it remarkably useful back then and was in need of it right now…
What I did find was a program better than the last one I used and it facilitates complete throttling on bandwidth download and upload speeds and allows you to quickly throttle individual processes running at a flick of a checkbox. It’s called NetLimiter (free plug) and it is remarkable! It does exactly what I want and I must say I’m very impressed at the simplicity and ease of use to get started (It suggested I reboot after installation but it worked just fine for me without!), so if you need a program which will simulate slower connections and effectively throttle your bandwidth as high or as low as you want then I suggest you take a look (best thing is, it’s isolated to your PC and not the entire network).
You can grab yourself a copy over at http://www.netlimiter.com/. There is a commercial free trial and a purchasable pro and lite version. I believe the lite version will suffice for simple throttling, I also realised I’m running a slightly older version than the one they are promoting at the moment (v2.0.1), as I downloaded it from another website. But the v1.30 I am running does the job, and is a smaller download.
Happy throttling!
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