====== Simulating slow network connections with trickle ======
You can limit the downlink of a Firefox browser to 512 KB/s with this command:
trickle -d 512 /usr/bin/firefox -no-remote -P test
More informations can be found on these pages:
* [[http://monkey.org/~marius/pages/?page=trickle|trickle Homepage]]
* [[http://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/Trickle|Trickle in the Ubunutuuser Wiki]] (german)
=== trickle -h ===
Usage: trickle [-hvVs] [-d ] [-u ] [-w ] [-t ]
[-l ] [-n ] command ...
-h Help (this)
-v Increase verbosity level
-V Print trickle version
-s Run trickle in standalone mode independent of trickled
-d Set maximum cumulative download rate to KB/s
-u Set maximum cumulative upload rate to KB/s
-w Set window length to KB
-t Set default smoothing time to s
-l Set default smoothing length to KB
-n Use trickled socket name
-L Set latency to milliseconds
-P Preload the specified .so instead of the default one
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