Zac,
I don't believe there is a way using Windows 2000 Sever (basic installation) to prioritze network traffic based on what application is participating in the traffic.
I think there might be a way to do this using Windows 2000 as a router wth ISA installed, but don't hold me to that.
If your application is run on the server side, you might realize some speed gains by going to the PROCESSES tab in the TASK MANAGER, right clicking on the process and clicking SET PRORITY > HIGH. You can also right click on MY COMPUTER and click PROPERTIES, going to the ADVANCED tab, and change PROCESSOR SCHEDULING to PROGRAMS for some performance increases.
If your application is client side but uses a data engine on a server like MS SQL just Google "increase MS MSQL performance" for some tips on how to speed up the service of data.
It sounds like your real problem is too much needless traffic on the network though. Depending on your budget there are lots of solutions to that, the most obvious being port blocking on a firewall to stop needless traffic all together. There are also numerous products out there that will allow you to throttle bandwidth based on port, application, destination, etc. I would check with your IT staff or firewall/router hardware manufacturer to see if the products you currently own already are capable of some of this...
Hope this helps...
Mike
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by: ChicagoMikeWPosted on 2005-10-27 at 08:45:36ID: 15171961
in a word NO
in 2 words Not really.
you can set priority levels on the individual machines. but it sounds like network bandwidth is the problem you are asking about and to my best knowledge, you can not set priority for traffic there.
but you can set proirty on the server per app, and you can block port for downloading and streaming meadia on your firewall thus stoping that traffic.