How to throttle your own internet connection?

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Published on 2012-06-22T16:47:18Z Indexed on 2012/06/24 15:17 UTC
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I am writing a website and want to test it's speed on slower internet connections.

I have the unfortunate first world problem of downloading at 100mbps, how can I throttle my own computer's internet connection to 56kbps or 5mbps to give myself an idea of how my users might be downloading my website?

EDIT: I am using Windows primarily but also have an ubuntu laptop if the answer is linux oriented.

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