This policy setting limits the network bandwidth that Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) uses for background transfers during the work and non-work days and hours. The work schedule is defined using a weekly calendar, which consists of days of the week and hours of the day. All hours and days that are not defined in a work schedule are considered non-work hours.
If you enable this setting, then you can set up a schedule for limiting network bandwidth during both work and non-work hours. After the work schedule is defined, you can set the bandwidth usage limits for each of the three BITS background priority levels: high, normal, and low.
You can specify a limit to use for background jobs during a work schedule. For example, you can limit the network bandwidth of low priority jobs to 128 Kbps from 8:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M. on Monday through Friday, and then set the limit to 512 Kbps for non-work hours.
If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, BITS uses all available unused bandwidth for background job transfers.
Registry Hive | HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE |
Registry Path | Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\BITS\Throttling |
Value Name | EnableBandwidthLimits |
Value Type | REG_DWORD |
Enabled Value | 1 |
Disabled Value | 0 |
Registry Hive | HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE |
Registry Path | Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\BITS\Throttling |
Value Name | IgnoreBandwidthLimitsOnLan |
Value Type | REG_DWORD |
Default Value | 0 |
True Value | 1 |
False Value | 0 |
Work Days
Registry Hive | HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE |
Registry Path | Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\BITS\Throttling\WorkSchedule |
Value Name | StartDay |
Value Type | REG_DWORD |
Value | 0 |
Registry Hive | HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE |
Registry Path | Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\BITS\Throttling\WorkSchedule |
Value Name | StartDay |
Value Type | REG_DWORD |
Value | 1 |
Registry Hive | HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE |
Registry Path | Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\BITS\Throttling\WorkSchedule |
Value Name | StartDay |
Value Type | REG_DWORD |
Value | 2 |
Registry Hive | HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE |
Registry Path | Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\BITS\Throttling\WorkSchedule |
Value Name | StartDay |
Value Type | REG_DWORD |
Value | 3 |
Registry Hive | HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE |
Registry Path | Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\BITS\Throttling\WorkSchedule |
Value Name | StartDay |
Value Type | REG_DWORD |
Value | 4 |
Registry Hive | HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE |
Registry Path | Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\BITS\Throttling\WorkSchedule |
Value Name | StartDay |
Value Type | REG_DWORD |
Value | 5 |
Registry Hive | HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE |
Registry Path | Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\BITS\Throttling\WorkSchedule |
Value Name | StartDay |
Value Type | REG_DWORD |
Value | 6 |
Registry Hive | HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE |
Registry Path | Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\BITS\Throttling\WorkSchedule |
Value Name | EndDay |
Value Type | REG_DWORD |
Value | 0 |
Registry Hive | HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE |
Registry Path | Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\BITS\Throttling\WorkSchedule |
Value Name | EndDay |
Value Type | REG_DWORD |
Value | 1 |
Registry Hive | HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE |
Registry Path | Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\BITS\Throttling\WorkSchedule |
Value Name | EndDay |
Value Type | REG_DWORD |
Value | 2 |
Registry Hive | HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE |
Registry Path | Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\BITS\Throttling\WorkSchedule |
Value Name | EndDay |
Value Type | REG_DWORD |
Value | 3 |
Registry Hive | HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE |
Registry Path | Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\BITS\Throttling\WorkSchedule |
Value Name | EndDay |
Value Type | REG_DWORD |
Value | 4 |
Registry Hive | HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE |
Registry Path | Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\BITS\Throttling\WorkSchedule |
Value Name | EndDay |
Value Type | REG_DWORD |
Value | 5 |
Registry Hive | HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE |
Registry Path | Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\BITS\Throttling\WorkSchedule |
Value Name | EndDay |
Value Type | REG_DWORD |
Value | 6 |
Daily Work Hours
Registry Hive | HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE |
Registry Path | Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\BITS\Throttling\WorkSchedule |
Value Name | StartHour |
Value Type | REG_DWORD |
Value | 0 |
Registry Hive | HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE |
Registry Path | Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\BITS\Throttling\WorkSchedule |
Value Name | StartHour |
Value Type | REG_DWORD |
Value | 1 |
Registry Hive | HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE |
Registry Path | Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\BITS\Throttling\WorkSchedule |
Value Name | StartHour |
Value Type | REG_DWORD |
Value | 2 |
Registry Hive | HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE |
Registry Path | Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\BITS\Throttling\WorkSchedule |
Value Name | StartHour |
Value Type | REG_DWORD |
Value | 3 |
Registry Hive | HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE |
Registry Path | Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\BITS\Throttling\WorkSchedule |
Value Name | StartHour |
Value Type | REG_DWORD |
Value | 4 |
Registry Hive | HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE |
Registry Path | Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\BITS\Throttling\WorkSchedule |
Value Name | StartHour |
Value Type | REG_DWORD |
Value | 5 |
Registry Hive | HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE |
Registry Path | Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\BITS\Throttling\WorkSchedule |
Value Name | StartHour |
Value Type | REG_DWORD |
Value | 6 |
Registry Hive | HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE |
Registry Path | Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\BITS\Throttling\WorkSchedule |
Value Name | StartHour |
Value Type | REG_DWORD |
Value | 7 |
Registry Hive | HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE |
Registry Path | Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\BITS\Throttling\WorkSchedule |
Value Name | StartHour |
Value Type | REG_DWORD |
Value | 8 |
Registry Hive | HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE |
Registry Path | Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\BITS\Throttling\WorkSchedule |
Value Name | StartHour |
Value Type | REG_DWORD |
Value | 9 |
Registry Hive | HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE |
Registry Path | Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\BITS\Throttling\WorkSchedule |
Value Name | StartHour |
Value Type | REG_DWORD |
Value | 10 |
Registry Hive | HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE |
Registry Path | Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\BITS\Throttling\WorkSchedule |
Value Name | StartHour |
Value Type | REG_DWORD |
Value | 11 |
Registry Hive | HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE |
Registry Path | Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\BITS\Throttling\WorkSchedule |
Value Name | StartHour |
Value Type | REG_DWORD |
Value | 12 |
Registry Hive | HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE |
Registry Path | Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\BITS\Throttling\WorkSchedule |
Value Name | StartHour |
Value Type | REG_DWORD |
Value | 13 |
Registry Hive | HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE |
Registry Path | Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\BITS\Throttling\WorkSchedule |
Value Name | StartHour |
Value Type | REG_DWORD |
Value | 14 |
Registry Hive | HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE |
Registry Path | Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\BITS\Throttling\WorkSchedule |
Value Name | StartHour |
Value Type | REG_DWORD |
Value | 15 |
Registry Hive | HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE |
Registry Path | Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\BITS\Throttling\WorkSchedule |
Value Name | StartHour |
Value Type | REG_DWORD |
Value | 16 |
Registry Hive | HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE |
Registry Path | Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\BITS\Throttling\WorkSchedule |
Value Name | StartHour |
Value Type | REG_DWORD |
Value | 17 |
Registry Hive | HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE |
Registry Path | Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\BITS\Throttling\WorkSchedule |
Value Name | StartHour |
Value Type | REG_DWORD |
Value | 18 |
Registry Hive | HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE |
Registry Path | Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\BITS\Throttling\WorkSchedule |
Value Name | StartHour |
Value Type | REG_DWORD |
Value | 19 |
Registry Hive | HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE |
Registry Path | Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\BITS\Throttling\WorkSchedule |
Value Name | StartHour |
Value Type | REG_DWORD |
Value | 20 |
Registry Hive | HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE |
Registry Path | Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\BITS\Throttling\WorkSchedule |
Value Name | StartHour |
Value Type | REG_DWORD |
Value | 21 |
Registry Hive | HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE |
Registry Path | Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\BITS\Throttling\WorkSchedule |
Value Name | StartHour |
Value Type | REG_DWORD |
Value | 22 |
Registry Hive | HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE |
Registry Path | Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\BITS\Throttling\WorkSchedule |
Value Name | StartHour |
Value Type | REG_DWORD |
Value | 23 |
Registry Hive | HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE |
Registry Path | Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\BITS\Throttling\WorkSchedule |
Value Name | EndHour |
Value Type | REG_DWORD |
Value | 0 |
Registry Hive | HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE |
Registry Path | Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\BITS\Throttling\WorkSchedule |
Value Name | EndHour |
Value Type | REG_DWORD |
Value | 1 |
Registry Hive | HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE |
Registry Path | Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\BITS\Throttling\WorkSchedule |
Value Name | EndHour |
Value Type | REG_DWORD |
Value | 2 |
Registry Hive | HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE |
Registry Path | Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\BITS\Throttling\WorkSchedule |
Value Name | EndHour |
Value Type | REG_DWORD |
Value | 3 |
Registry Hive | HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE |
Registry Path | Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\BITS\Throttling\WorkSchedule |
Value Name | EndHour |
Value Type | REG_DWORD |
Value | 4 |
Registry Hive | HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE |
Registry Path | Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\BITS\Throttling\WorkSchedule |
Value Name | EndHour |
Value Type | REG_DWORD |
Value | 5 |
Registry Hive | HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE |
Registry Path | Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\BITS\Throttling\WorkSchedule |
Value Name | EndHour |
Value Type | REG_DWORD |
Value | 6 |
Registry Hive | HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE |
Registry Path | Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\BITS\Throttling\WorkSchedule |
Value Name | EndHour |
Value Type | REG_DWORD |
Value | 7 |
Registry Hive | HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE |
Registry Path | Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\BITS\Throttling\WorkSchedule |
Value Name | EndHour |
Value Type | REG_DWORD |
Value | 8 |
Registry Hive | HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE |
Registry Path | Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\BITS\Throttling\WorkSchedule |
Value Name | EndHour |
Value Type | REG_DWORD |
Value | 9 |
Registry Hive | HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE |
Registry Path | Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\BITS\Throttling\WorkSchedule |
Value Name | EndHour |
Value Type | REG_DWORD |
Value | 10 |
Registry Hive | HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE |
Registry Path | Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\BITS\Throttling\WorkSchedule |
Value Name | EndHour |
Value Type | REG_DWORD |
Value | 11 |
Registry Hive | HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE |
Registry Path | Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\BITS\Throttling\WorkSchedule |
Value Name | EndHour |
Value Type | REG_DWORD |
Value | 12 |
Registry Hive | HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE |
Registry Path | Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\BITS\Throttling\WorkSchedule |
Value Name | EndHour |
Value Type | REG_DWORD |
Value | 13 |
Registry Hive | HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE |
Registry Path | Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\BITS\Throttling\WorkSchedule |
Value Name | EndHour |
Value Type | REG_DWORD |
Value | 14 |
Registry Hive | HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE |
Registry Path | Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\BITS\Throttling\WorkSchedule |
Value Name | EndHour |
Value Type | REG_DWORD |
Value | 15 |
Registry Hive | HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE |
Registry Path | Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\BITS\Throttling\WorkSchedule |
Value Name | EndHour |
Value Type | REG_DWORD |
Value | 16 |
Registry Hive | HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE |
Registry Path | Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\BITS\Throttling\WorkSchedule |
Value Name | EndHour |
Value Type | REG_DWORD |
Value | 17 |
Registry Hive | HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE |
Registry Path | Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\BITS\Throttling\WorkSchedule |
Value Name | EndHour |
Value Type | REG_DWORD |
Value | 18 |
Registry Hive | HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE |
Registry Path | Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\BITS\Throttling\WorkSchedule |
Value Name | EndHour |
Value Type | REG_DWORD |
Value | 19 |
Registry Hive | HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE |
Registry Path | Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\BITS\Throttling\WorkSchedule |
Value Name | EndHour |
Value Type | REG_DWORD |
Value | 20 |
Registry Hive | HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE |
Registry Path | Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\BITS\Throttling\WorkSchedule |
Value Name | EndHour |
Value Type | REG_DWORD |
Value | 21 |
Registry Hive | HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE |
Registry Path | Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\BITS\Throttling\WorkSchedule |
Value Name | EndHour |
Value Type | REG_DWORD |
Value | 22 |
Registry Hive | HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE |
Registry Path | Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\BITS\Throttling\WorkSchedule |
Value Name | EndHour |
Value Type | REG_DWORD |
Value | 23 |
Bandwidth Limits During Work Hours
Registry Hive | HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE |
Registry Path | Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\BITS\Throttling\WorkSchedule |
Value Name | HighBandwidthLimit |
Value Type | REG_DWORD |
Default Value | 0 |
Min Value | |
Max Value | 4294967200 |
Registry Hive | HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE |
Registry Path | Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\BITS\Throttling\WorkSchedule |
Value Name | HighBandwidthType |
Value Type | REG_DWORD |
Value | 1 |
Registry Hive | HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE |
Registry Path | Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\BITS\Throttling\WorkSchedule |
Value Name | HighBandwidthType |
Value Type | REG_DWORD |
Value | 2 |
Registry Hive | HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE |
Registry Path | Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\BITS\Throttling\WorkSchedule |
Value Name | HighBandwidthType |
Value Type | REG_DWORD |
Value | 3 |
Registry Hive | HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE |
Registry Path | Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\BITS\Throttling\WorkSchedule |
Value Name | NormalBandwidthLimit |
Value Type | REG_DWORD |
Default Value | 0 |
Min Value | |
Max Value | 4294967200 |
Registry Hive | HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE |
Registry Path | Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\BITS\Throttling\WorkSchedule |
Value Name | NormalBandwidthType |
Value Type | REG_DWORD |
Value | 1 |
Registry Hive | HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE |
Registry Path | Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\BITS\Throttling\WorkSchedule |
Value Name | NormalBandwidthType |
Value Type | REG_DWORD |
Value | 2 |
Registry Hive | HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE |
Registry Path | Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\BITS\Throttling\WorkSchedule |
Value Name | NormalBandwidthType |
Value Type | REG_DWORD |
Value | 3 |
Registry Hive | HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE |
Registry Path | Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\BITS\Throttling\WorkSchedule |
Value Name | LowBandwidthLimit |
Value Type | REG_DWORD |
Default Value | 0 |
Min Value | |
Max Value | 4294967200 |
Registry Hive | HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE |
Registry Path | Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\BITS\Throttling\WorkSchedule |
Value Name | LowBandwidthType |
Value Type | REG_DWORD |
Value | 1 |
Registry Hive | HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE |
Registry Path | Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\BITS\Throttling\WorkSchedule |
Value Name | LowBandwidthType |
Value Type | REG_DWORD |
Value | 2 |
Registry Hive | HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE |
Registry Path | Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\BITS\Throttling\WorkSchedule |
Value Name | LowBandwidthType |
Value Type | REG_DWORD |
Value | 3 |
Bandwidth Limits During Non-Work Hours
Registry Hive | HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE |
Registry Path | Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\BITS\Throttling\NonWorkSchedule |
Value Name | HighBandwidthLimit |
Value Type | REG_DWORD |
Default Value | 0 |
Min Value | |
Max Value | 4294967200 |
Registry Hive | HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE |
Registry Path | Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\BITS\Throttling\NonWorkSchedule |
Value Name | HighBandwidthType |
Value Type | REG_DWORD |
Value | 1 |
Registry Hive | HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE |
Registry Path | Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\BITS\Throttling\NonWorkSchedule |
Value Name | HighBandwidthType |
Value Type | REG_DWORD |
Value | 2 |
Registry Hive | HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE |
Registry Path | Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\BITS\Throttling\NonWorkSchedule |
Value Name | HighBandwidthType |
Value Type | REG_DWORD |
Value | 3 |
Registry Hive | HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE |
Registry Path | Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\BITS\Throttling\NonWorkSchedule |
Value Name | NormalBandwidthLimit |
Value Type | REG_DWORD |
Default Value | 0 |
Min Value | |
Max Value | 4294967200 |
Registry Hive | HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE |
Registry Path | Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\BITS\Throttling\NonWorkSchedule |
Value Name | NormalBandwidthType |
Value Type | REG_DWORD |
Value | 1 |
Registry Hive | HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE |
Registry Path | Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\BITS\Throttling\NonWorkSchedule |
Value Name | NormalBandwidthType |
Value Type | REG_DWORD |
Value | 2 |
Registry Hive | HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE |
Registry Path | Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\BITS\Throttling\NonWorkSchedule |
Value Name | NormalBandwidthType |
Value Type | REG_DWORD |
Value | 3 |
Registry Hive | HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE |
Registry Path | Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\BITS\Throttling\NonWorkSchedule |
Value Name | LowBandwidthLimit |
Value Type | REG_DWORD |
Default Value | 0 |
Min Value | |
Max Value | 4294967200 |
Registry Hive | HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE |
Registry Path | Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\BITS\Throttling\NonWorkSchedule |
Value Name | LowBandwidthType |
Value Type | REG_DWORD |
Value | 1 |
Registry Hive | HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE |
Registry Path | Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\BITS\Throttling\NonWorkSchedule |
Value Name | LowBandwidthType |
Value Type | REG_DWORD |
Value | 2 |
Registry Hive | HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE |
Registry Path | Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\BITS\Throttling\NonWorkSchedule |
Value Name | LowBandwidthType |
Value Type | REG_DWORD |
Value | 3 |