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[john AT radiomind.com (John Beimler)]

begin  quotation from Michael S Czeiszperger <czei AT webperformanceinc.com> [on 
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> I've had a couple of requests from web designers for a "modem simulator" 
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> the lack of a better term, and I wanted to get some feedback from web 
> designers on the list.
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Heres some overkill solutions, I haven't seen/used anything on the client
side, but I know how to slow down an apache server - mod_throttle
(http://www.snert.com/Software/mod_throttle/) or you can slow down an
interface within the Linux kernel using traffic shaping. 
(http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Bandwidth-Limiting-HOWTO/index.html)

I would guess that there is a much simpler client side implementation for
what you are trying to do, but I don't what it would be.  Quick and dirty
would be to calculate the size of the page and its related components, and
then calculate how long it would take to download all of that at different
bit-rates.  I thought I had seen a tool like that in DreamWeaver, but that
was a while ago.

Peace

john