Internet connection throttling

I was looking around for an internet connection throttler to run some tests on client-side web applications. Doing this can be very useful to ensure the application works as intended regardless of the user’s internet connection.

Appearently using throttlers are not too common because if you look up throttling you will most likely come up with people’s complaints about ISP throttling for P2P networks and the alike. However, I found Nimbus developed by Shunra which is a freeware. It’s very simple to use, you just select the throttling speed you want.

Shunra no longer updates or provides a download link for this software but you can download Nimbus here.

There is also NetLimiter which is more well known, more advanced and if you feel like paying 30 USD it probably works just fine as well. Personally I’m quite happy with Nimbus. It does what it suppose to do.