How is bandwidth capacity assigned to multiple transferring programs (clients) ?

[Ken Philips]

Assume I have multiple programs running on my WinXP Pro system which consume/need a certain part
of the available internet connection bandwidth:

- FTP download
- VoIP client (Skype)
- Web server
- P2P torrent download
- remote control client/server

How is the local limited bandwidth assigned among all these capacity requesting hungry clients by default?

First comes, first serves ?

Do I have an option to manually assign a minimum, maximum or percentage of the full capacity
to certain programs (outside the programs themselves!)?

Ken

 

[Mark L. Ferguson]

Windows XP Quality of Service (QoS) enhancements and behavior
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/316666/