Reducing my high speed connection

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leinad256

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Hi! Im a web developer, but right Im having a trouble. In my new job we have high speed conection, so Im developing a flash web site, where I have some preloaders. I need to check it. Im asking if I can reduce my connection, limiting the quantity of bytes per second are getting my computer (Downloading a lots of files of other sites dont work)

thanks very much!
 
There's no real way that I know of to cap your (ethernet?) interface's speed, other than reducing it to 10 Base T, but that won't make much difference anyway.

What you could do is upload your test site to a slow server and view it from there. This will only work if your corporate LAN doesn't have a caching proxy server, in which case the first time you hit the page it'll get cached and served full-speed...
 
There are ways to do this on a software level - although I can't remember exactly how... If you are serving the flash site from apache there is a way can define the max speed through a module I think, and I know for a fact that with mac os x's ipfw you can cap the bandwidth on a certain interface (ethernet for example).
Here ya go - mod_throttle, an apache module allows you to control the bandwidth from the server, which means you don't have to limit *your* bandwidth. I expect that you could also initiate mod_throttle via .htaccess files, thereby limiting the throttling only to certain directory trees.
 
Thanks very much!
Well, I think I dont have permissions to modify the settings in my server directly (maybe trought a .httaccess file, but Im not sure). But anyway, Im testing the site on the local, in my computer with the apache web server because Im using a database mysql. I was reading the instruccions but I dont understand exactly the step 2

Depending on your operating system, you must edit the #undef and #define found at the top of mod_throttle.c source file to specify the semaphore & shared memory API to use.

For the semaphore support you must #define only one of the following and #undef the rest. If you do not #define one of these, then mod_throttle will operate without semaphore support, which will have undefined results:

USE_POSIX_SERIALIZATION
USE_FCNTL_SERIALIZATION
USE_FLOCK_SERIALIZATION
USE_SYSTEM_V_SERIALIZATION

For the shared memory support you must #define only one of the following and #undef the rest. If you do not #define one of these, then mod_throttle will operate without shared memory, which will have undefined results:

USE_POSIX_SHARED_MEMORY
USE_SYSTEM_V_SHARED_MEMORY
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I dont know where can I get that info (I never have installed a apache module)

thanks!
 
Im having some troubles trying to install it, can u help me?

I followed the instruccions, but I cant compile it

thanks very much!
 
Flash has a setting for emulating different connection speeds. When you run Control>Test Movie, select Debug and set your connection speed.
 
If you've got a mac, you've got a modem .. pop the cable into a phone line and do it that way.

Hope that helps?..
 
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