Bandwidth throttle on OSX with IPFW for localhost

bandwidthipfwlocalhostmac-osxrate-limiting

I have my localhost webiste on http://macintosh.local – 127.0.0.1
Testing my website also for IE on the same address in VMWare Fusion
I tried some Apps from hanynet.com/applications/ like WaterRoof.
Never managed to get it working though.

I realize I could do this just with a few command lines in Terminal..
Anyone knows how?

Best Answer

It might help to know why you want to throttle your bandwidth, especially on a localhost connection. Are you trying to emulate a slow connection?

You can do this with a pipe

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20080119112509736

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