ToolTip: Test Poor Network Connectivity (TMNetsim)

A few days ago I found another utility for testing poor network connectivity. TMNetsim is a FREE utility provided by TMUrgent Technologies. TMnetsim is used to simulate a wide-area network for a single protocol. TMnetsim is primarily used to simulate network delay, however, in some (rare) cases it may be used to simulate packet loss or out-of-order delivery, as well as packet capture. (For more details read the provided tmnetsim.html file).

So to simulate an RDP connection over a network with delays simply launch the Utility on a server, configure the settings as shown below and then select the Start button.

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As you can see I defined Port 3390 as the Inbound Connection port for RDP, hence to connect to the simulated connection I also add that port number to the connection string.

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TMNetsim is available for 32 and 64 Bit versions of Windows and can be downloaded from here (look into the Other Tools section).

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