I have just started learning Flex and realised there is no way to test the download speed of your movie and whether your preloader is working as it should – like you can with the bandwidth profiler in Flash.

After a quick search I decided that Charles met my requirements. I have had a quick play with it and the interface is well designed, it has a Firefox extension and most importantly I can test my Flex preloaders are working! It also works on OSX which means I can use it on my home machine as well. Its seems to be a great bit of software and well worth testing.

Update – I couldn’t figure out how to get it to throttle my bin-bug folder which resides on my local drive. To get around this I created a new workspace on my local server (http://localhost/flex/….) which solved the problem. This probably isn’t the correct way to set-up your Flex development environment….. any advice appreciated.

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