Windows uses 20% of your bandwidth Here's how to Get it back

[srinivasan4u1]

Windows uses 20% of your bandwidth Here's how to Get it back

A nice little tweak for XP. Microsoft reserve 20% of your available bandwidth for their own purposes (suspect for updates and interrogating your machine etc..)

Here's how to get it back:

Click Start-->Run-->type "gpedit.msc" without the "

This opens the group policy editor. Then go to:


Local Computer Policy-->Computer Configuration-->Administrative Templates-->Network-->QOS Packet Scheduler-->Limit Reservable Bandwidth


Double click on Limit Reservable bandwidth. It will say it is not configured, but the truth is under the 'Explain' tab :

"By default, the Packet Scheduler limits the system to 20 percent of the bandwidth of a connection, but you can use this setting to override the default."

So the trick is to ENABLE reservable bandwidth, then set it to ZERO.

This will allow the system to reserve nothing, rather than the default 20%.

I have tested on XP Pro, and 2000
other o/s not tested.

Please give me feedback about your results

[pappupager]

thanks nice find mate.

[Chronic1]

Really nice find man, cheers for this

[babablack]

thanx a lot man

[uday777]

thank u very much very useful for low speed users like me

[ziadaman]

thanks alot this is a great trick

[ziadaman]

UPDATE: I've tried it but it doesnt work..i have windows xp home edition

[iamsam379]

i tried it and it kinda helps

[Alan S]

i dont even have that file ! i went and typed it into run gpedit.msc , and i got a error about a missing file..................oh well ( using xp home btw )

[srinivasan4u1]

Originally Posted by Alan S

i dont even have that file ! i went and typed it into run gpedit.msc , and i got a error about a missing file..................oh well ( using xp home btw )

Hai this trick dosent works in XP Home edition

[411]

XP Home is Not Allowed access to the .msc indexes/files If anyone finds a workaround please post it.

[Franky]

This is very useful for me

[e.junior58]

Nice one, my internet is faster now

[kjeeneea]

hope it works

[ruchirbhatnagar]

thanx for the info...