Increasing the number of work buffers can increase network performance.

Adjust the number of work buffers the redirector allocates for network traffic. Use Performance Monitor or any other Windows monitoring software and add the counter Redirector\Current Commands. This is the number of requests to the redirector that are currently queued for service. If this number is much larger than the number of network adapters installed in the computer, you might want to increase the maximum allowance for pending net commands in the MaxCmds key. Use Performance Monitor to diagnose and adjust MaxCmds to optimal values.

Adjust MaxCmds by editing the key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\ System\CurrentControlSet\Services\LanmanWorkstation\Parameters with a DWORD value.

Note: When the MaxThreads key is configured with a value above 15 the systems nonpaged pool memory will increase by 1k for each thread .