There is a BITS gotcha: "BITS works over idle bandwidth but "if the Internet Gateway Device (IGD) doesn't have UPnP turned on or does not support GetTotalBytesSent and GetTotalBytesReceived counters" then BITS uses the NIC speed to calculate bandwidth availability
This would cause the BITS software to miscalculate exactly what idle bandwidth is! How do I go about finding out if our IGD's have/use UPnP and support the counters? Dave From: David Mazzaccaro [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, May 06, 2009 7:58 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: BITS question not sure, but I do know this - I have 8 locations in 5 states, all low bandwidth connections back to me (512k - 768k). WSUS updates NEVER slow down/clog up the circuits. Now, on the other hand... we do use this anitivirus application called Vipre which is not so nice with bandwidth restrictions (I wish it used BITS!!!!) ;-P ________________________________ From: David Lum [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, May 06, 2009 9:19 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: BITS question Question about Microsoft BITS: If a machine is on a fast LAN link locally but connected to a remote office via slow link, how does BITS determine network bandwidth for throttling? IE remote office grabbing Windows Updates via WSUS - does the application using BITS do some end-to-end test? My network guy is telling me WSUS updates for 17 PC's is killing T1 bandwidth (we have VoIP on the same link). I know I can throttle BITS via GPO but would like to know if I *need* to make the change or not. Any links to MS articles on BITS would be helpful. I already found this one and downloaded the Word doc: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/techinfo/overview/bits.mspx Thanks, David Lum // SYSTEMS ENGINEER NORTHWEST EVALUATION ASSOCIATION (Desk) 971.222.1025 // (Cell) 503.267.9764 ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
