Mimic Realistic Networking Conditions on Windows with winShaper

If you’re using macOS then you might be familiar with the XCode bundled “Network Link Conditioner”, a tool to simulate certain specific networking environments. On Windows you can use winShaper for this. The project consists of a traffic-shaping network driver and an easy-to-use GUI.

You need to be an administrator to run it since it needs to run a device driver to do the filtering but otherwise it is just a matter of running winShaper, selecting a connection profile and turning it on.

Don’t forget that your DevTools have network throttling features built-in. winShaper and the Network Link Conditioner differ from the DevTools in this by throttling the traffic on a system-wide level.

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winShaper Source (GitHub) →

Published by Bramus!

Bramus is a frontend web developer from Belgium, working as a Chrome Developer Relations Engineer at Google. From the moment he discovered view-source at the age of 14 (way back in 1997), he fell in love with the web and has been tinkering with it ever since (more …)

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