Best ms-access questions in November 2010

how can I simulate network latency on my developer machine?

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I am upsizing an MS Access 2003 app to a SQL Server backend. On my dev machine, SQL Server is local, so the performance is quite good. I want to test the performance with a remote SQL Server so I can account for the effects of network latency when I am redesigning the app. I am expecting that some of the queries that seem fast now will run quite slowly once deployed to production.

How can I slow down (or simulate the speed of a remote) SQL Server without using a virtual machine, or relocating SQL to another computer? Is there some kind of proxy or Windows utility that would do this for me?

I have not used it myself, but here's another SO question:

In one of the comments SQL Server has been mentioned explicitly.