How To: Load Balance Network Adapters in XP
If you have two or more network cards in your system this setting allows you to distribute the number of connections across each adapter. I have found it useful on my file sever when numerous files are being streamed across the network, adding this on a switched network allows you to get more bandwidth out of your system.
Here is how to do it:
- Click Start, Run and type “regedit”
- Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, SYSTEM, CurrentControlSet, Services, NetBT, Parameters
- Right Click in the window to the right, New , DWORD value
- Enter “RandomAdapter” and give it a value of 1
- Restart system.
