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Limiting Bandwidth for Static Files

If the bandwidth on your server is not sufficient to handle the load imposed by IIS 5.0, you can limit the amount of bandwidth IIS 5.0 uses for static HTML pages (files with .htm or .html extensions). This setting affects all services that route directly through IIS 5.0, but not those that are sent to other engines or applications (ASP, ISAPI, CGI, and SQL Server, for example).

Remember that per-instance bandwidth throttling is not supported for FTP service.

To enable bandwidth throttling

  1. In the IIS snap-in, right-click a Web site, then click Properties and select the Performance tab.
  2. Select the Enable Bandwidth Throttling check box. In the Maximum network use box, type the maximum amount of bandwidth you want IIS 5.0 to use for static HTML pages, in kilobytes per second.

You do not need to restart the server or the service to activate bandwidth throttling; it is enabled dynamically.


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