Can I force WMP to use less bandwidth?
November 15, 2004 12:19 PM   Subscribe

Can I throttle the speed at which WMP plays streaming media? When I fire it up, it attempts to play at 128k, and kills our inbound bandwidth. We're in an industrial-boonies area of town and only have a pokey ISDN due to distance from the tellyphone whatsit. Despite the unused fiber hatch right in front of the building.

Yes, I am aware of non-MS products. This question is not about them.
posted by mwhybark to Computers & Internet (3 answers total)
 
Yes, I am aware of non-MS products. This question is not about them.

You mean non-MS media players, right? Because something like NetLimiter would do the job for you.
posted by gd779 at 12:36 PM on November 15, 2004


how about the setting that says "connection speed"? under options --> performance. change it so that it doesn't auto-detect your bandwidth, which should (hopefully) stop it from hogging the line.
posted by caution live frogs at 12:49 PM on November 15, 2004


Response by poster: Thanks, that did it after a reboot!
posted by mwhybark at 4:39 PM on November 15, 2004


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