The recommended number of concurrent upload and download threads depends on your network’s bandwidth. Three threads are recommended for a WAN, while 6 threads are possible for a fast LAN. However, in most cases, increasing the number of threads in a LAN environment will not improve performance, as the disk will then become the bottleneck. Even in a WAN environment, settings greater than the default are unlikely to improve throughput significantly.

To set the number of concurrent threads that an authoring application uses for uploading and downloading data to and from a Windchill server, use the wf.network.threads preference in the wgmclient.ini file.

For more information, see “Frequently Used Preferences in wgmclient.ini File” in the Windchill Help Center.