Modifying BITS Functionality Through Group Policy

BITS typically manages the use of network bandwidth intelligently without additional configuration. If you find that BITS-enabled transfers are consuming more bandwidth than desired or want to provide extra protection for other business-critical network activity, you can configure group policy to limit the bandwidth BITS will consume. The setting is specified in Kbps, and its name varies depending on the version of Windows you are running.

• For Windows Server 2003 group policy, the setting is called Maximum network bandwidth that BITS uses.

• For Windows Server 2008 group policy and newer versions, the setting is Maximum network bandwidth for BITS background transfers.

You can find this setting ...

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