Bandwidth Throttle for linux

Question

The Throttle Firefox extension doesn't work on linux.

Is there a utility for linux that could throttle the bandwidth usage for a particular program/process, or even the entire system?

Main usage would be for web development, to test the user experience when the connection is slow.

Answer 1

This question was also asked on Stack Overflow. Have a look through the answers: how to throttle bandwidth on a linux network interface.

Answer 2

trickle is what you're after.