Increase Your Bandwidth By 20%

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[Harold]

Windows XP uses 20% of your bandwidth !

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%.
Works on XP Pro and 2000.


BTW, this gpedit.msc is another great way to tweak pc without having to use outside tools. But be careful and read the information bars before you make any changes.

[dane]

this is a fable being passed around 4 years now.
 
I tested it  on my network (10 computers .. gigabit lan on half and 100 mbit on the other half. ) tested on both parts.
 
moved 44 GB of files on both networks
 
with QOS OFF-> the network slowed down about 25%
 
thus it slows down the netwk when U turn it off.
 
that's my results.. thus I say.. leave it alone. don't do this

[N3rdyGuy]

How did you move the files around? FTP?

[dane]

thru the LAN ... to half the computers using a Linksys gigabit switch
and the others via a Linksys 100 mbit switch

[N3rdyGuy]

You mean through windows networking?

[dane]

yes of course ... LAN .. using Xp .. server is Win 2k3 server