Reclaiming Bandwidth

Lord Nikon

Did you know Microsoft reserves 20% of your internet bandwidth for itself!!!
What exactly, does Bill Gates want with 20% of your bandwidth!? My guess is that has something to do with interrogating your PC!
So lets go get that 20% back right!!!!
here is how to get it back…and achieve better download rates:

How To Take Back 20% Of Your Bandwidth From Windows XP:

Click START / Run / and then enter gpedit.msc
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%.

Go get em tigers!

Dingatron

MS rebuttal of this claim is here.

Clarification about the use of QoS in end computers that are running Windows XP
As in Windows 2000, programs can take advantage of QoS through the QoS APIs in Windows XP. One hundred percent 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 percent 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.

Source
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q316666

Correction of some incorrect claims about Windows XP QoS support
There have been claims in various published technical articles and newsgroup postings that Windows XP always reserves 20 percent of the available bandwidth for QoS. These claims are incorrect. The information in the "Clarification about QoS in end computers that are Running Windows XP" section correctly describes the behavior of Windows XP systems.

Still worth a try I suppose as long as you know what your doing.


I'd be interested to see a bandwidth test btw? Ain't got Xp any more to try this out.

Supercell

Well I just tried it and am getting exactly zero speed increase in downloads, oh well, was worth a try!

Bros123

Does this work with vista?

kippy

Bros123 wrote: »

Does this work with vista?

It doesnt "work" with XP-why would it work with Vista?
Download speed test would be neither here nor there for measuring this "alleged" difference.