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

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

Windows XP Quality of Service (QoS) enhancements and behavior
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/316666/
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"Ken Philips" <kenkp@yahoo.ca> wrote in message
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> 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
>