Get sloppy and see how your site runs at 28k
Our friends at www.dallaway.com have created one of the best QA tools since VMWare. Sloppy deliberately slows the transfer of data between the client and the server. Essentially, Sloppy is a proxy and purposely bottle necks your connection to simulate a selected modem speed. Sure you and all of your friends have high speed connections, but there are still 25 to 30 percent of the (North American) population that connect to the internet through traditional phone lines 30 percent is a large portion of potential hits on your site so you better make sure it isn’t painfully slow and that it works on dial-up. Sloppy is the perfect tool for this. Make sure you download it and add it to your web development tool belt.