Increase your Bandwidth by 20% !

hellboy99

(For Windows XP Pro, MCE and 2000)

Some of you may or may not know this but Windows uses 20% of your bandwidth, Microsoft reserve 20% of your available bandwidth for their own purposes (suspect for updates and interrogating your machine etc..) so here's how to get it back :

Click Start; Run; and type in gpedit.msc

This opens the group policy editor. Now 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 enable reservable bandwidth, then set it to zero. Your system will now reserve nothing, rather than the default 20%.

WizZard

It limits ethernet, which is 10Mb minimum. not your modem.
It would only become a problem in broadband terms if someone had a 10Mb ethernet connection and a 10Mb broadband connection :rolleyes:

Apart from that it's pointless. If you are constantly transferring files from PC to PC over a 10Mb (!) network. Even then it's actually useful to use QoS.

morlan

lol

WellyJ

Tell me this is a joke.....


:rolleyes:

SirLemonhead

Bill Gates uses QoS to hax0r windows and steal pictures of your puppy from your digital camera

Mutant_Fruit

Nah, it doesn't work that way... i think...

QoS reserves the right to reserve 10/20% of the connection if the QoS tool decides that a different app needs the bandwidth. If theres no app needing bandwidth, QoS will reserve 0%. If an app is running that needs 5% of available bandwidth, i believe QoS reserves 5%.

EDIT:

Myth - "Disabling QoS will free up the 20% bandwidth reserved by QoS"

Reality - "As in Windows 2000, programs can take advantage of QoS through the QoS APIs in Windows XP. 100% of the network bandwidth is available to be shared by all programs unless a program specifically requests priority bandwidth. This "reserved" bandwidth is still available to other programs unless the requesting program is sending data. By default, programs can reserve up to an aggregate bandwidth of 20% of the underlying link speed on each interface on an end computer. If the program that reserved the bandwidth is not sending sufficient data to use it, the unused part of the reserved bandwidth is available for other data flows on the same host."

http://mywebpages.comcast.net/SupportCD/XPMyths.html