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I like Spirent Avalanche's http generator (though it is not desktop - it is a racked device and it is certainly not cheap!)

Normally it is used as a load test tool, however, I mention it because:

It allows simulation of multiple subnets with differing network characteristics. In both directions it allows the user to specify:

bandwidth
latency
packet loss

it also allows one to specify whether or not resources are parallelisable and to specify maximum client tcp connections and maximum requests per connection.

This is great for 'trying stuff out'.