Increase your Bandwidth by 20%

[waterboy0911]

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Windows uses 20% of your bandwidth! Get it back

A nice little tweak for XP. M*crosoft 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%.
works on XP Pro, and 2000

other OS not tested

[edge827]

is this really true have you tried it yourself?

[BaDBoY]

you may want to read this : gpedit and task manager

especially the answer from Ronnie Vernon

[ßattousai]

suwayan beh.. tnx ani waterboy.

[EarlZ]

This 20% is only used when Windows Automatic Update AFAIK.

[aozora]

thanks for the heads-up BaDBoY!

i think it boils down sa internet provider or bandwidth limit sa imong connection gigamit.
i dont think ang 382kbps limited connection will increase to +20% more kung i-enable ni na settings.

ang half-open tcp connections nuon nga gilimit sa windows to 10 by default kay proven nga maka paspas sa download kung i-increase to 100. hihiihihi...

[kamikaze_007]

..ok..hehehe..try daw ko..^^

[L1Technician]

Naa man thread siguro ani.

[cooldude75ph]

I tried this long ago. Didn't see any noticeable changes in my download speed.

[togoys]

sa XP ra di pwde sa vista? nggekk...faaaeett....