How to simulate drop in LAN bandwidth [closed]

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A customer is reporting some odd behaviour which I suspect is due to a massive drop on LAN bandwidth (It matches the times when the IT dept pump out windows updates).

I want to simulate this so I can design around it and make our software more robust to this. I have tried manually setting a bunch of copies going at the same time, but it doesn't put enough load.

Is there a tool out there which can swamp the network?

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On Windows, you can use a tool such as Clumsy, which provides many configuration options to emulate various scenarii such as packet loss, lag, out-of-order packets, etc...

Answer 2

Install Fiddler, under Rules > Performance> Simulate modem speeds , you can simulate a low bandwidth connection