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Windows uses 20% of your bandwidth Here's how to Get it back
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Windows uses 20% of your bandwidth Here's how to Get it back
A nice little tweak for XP. 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%.
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Windows uses 20% of your bandwidth Here's how to Get it back
A nice little tweak for XP. 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%.
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| Noty | This setting doesn't really do anything | 0 | Aug 6 2008, 12:49 AM EDT by Noty | |
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The 20% bandwidth reserve only applies while Windows is downloading updates. This means if there is a critical update, and you have Windows set to download, Windows has the right to 20% of the bandwidth to complete the download. Meaning - This would only affect you whenever there is a new update that your computer downloads, and only for a minute or two, generally during a time you're not using your computer. You should not change this setting.
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| cebert | Doesn't work with WinXP Home | 0 | Aug 2 2008, 11:37 PM EDT by cebert | |
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I tried this, but there is no gpedit.msc in Windows XP Home Edition, just Win XP Pro . Do you know whether this 20% bandwidth is also reserved by XP Home? Is there an alternative to using gpedit.msc?
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| cool3ni | Cool info | 0 | Oct 3 2007, 11:28 PM EDT by cool3ni | |
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Wow I tried this an it seems to be doin pretty well,cool dude
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| Anonymous | thanks | 0 | Aug 30 2007, 2:33 PM EDT by Anonymous | |
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Thanks for ur Info.
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