Wednesday, May 31, 2006

Enhancing Network Throughput

Network Throughput depends on a variety of factors and as such you never no what could be the bottleneck slowing your connection/transfers. One of the things we can try out is the network redirector reserves. Open registry editor(regedit @ command prompt) & navigate to
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\LanmanWorkstation\Parameters].
Once here, click on right panel and add following Dwords. Dwords are in hexadecimal (and value as shown below indicates that of 104, valid values are 0-255). Keep both values same. I think default is 15 or 20. This may help network throughput but there is no guarantee.. Try it out.

"MaxCmds"=dword:00000068
"MaxThreads"=dword:00000068