This wget recipe shows you how to make wget behave like it's on a slow connection. Use the --limit-rate option to throttle its download speed. This can help with testing or avoid saturating your network.
Set Download Speed to 512 KB/s
wget --limit-rate 512k https://google.com/testfile
This recipe uses the --limit-rate 512k argument to cap wget's download speed to 512KB/s. The k suffix means kilobytes per second. You can also use m for megabytes or just specify a raw number of bytes.
Set Download Speed to 1 byte/s
wget --limit-rate 1 https://google.com/testfile
In this recipe, we make wget download files at an excruciatingly slow rate: just 1 byte per second. Useful only for stress testing your own patience.
Simulate Slow Internet
wget --limit-rate 64k https://example.com/test.zip
Here we test how our site behaves on a slow connection. To do it, we set the limit to 64k (which is 64KB/s).
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