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October 15, 2008  
Subject: Vista and Bandwidth Throttling
Group: microsoft.public.windows.vista.networking_sharing
Date: 7/12/2008 4:28:08 AM
From: "John Whitworth" [Email Address Protection]

I'm a little uncertain as to whether I should be able to invoke bandwidth
throttling using Vista Ultimate with a standard home router.

The router does not have DSCP capability, but I have set up Group Policy for
a particularly stubborn backup application (iDrive), which is supposed to
have inbuilt throttling, but it doesn't work.

By setting DSCP in Vista to 8, and Throttling to 8KBps, should I be seeing
any throttling taking place? Or does it need a special router to actually
analyse the QoS information that Vista is adding to the packets? I'm using
OpenDNS - can that assist in any way here?

I set up the group policy to be for a particular application, from any
address, to any address, TCP and UDP.

I have managed to get around this issue by using a trial version of
NetLimiter. But obviously once my 28 day trial is up, if I don't *need* to
buy it, I'd rather not do so, if it's possible using the OS.

Thanks

John


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