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Increase Bandwidth By 20% Options, (XP Pro Only)
« on: June 15, 2007, 01:19:34 AM »
Increase Bandwidth By 20% Options, (XP Pro Only)

A nice little tweak for XP-Pro only. 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, 2000 but not on other o/s not tested.




If you are not running any services that need to use QOS then the space "reserved" for QOS is not used. In the event you are running a service that can take advantage of QOS, it can reserve a percentage of your bandwidth if it needs it. If nothing needs QOS then the bandwidth that would otherwise be reserved for QOS apps is available to all things that want it.

Turning this figure down or off will not make your network games run faster on a normal home connection, nor will it speed up general internet surfing. For the average user, playing with this setting will not do anything to make your system run faster or "better".

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