How to Take Back 20% of Your Bandwidth From Windows XP June 15, 2006
Posted by cbeech in News - Tech, Software, Tech.trackback
Microsoft reserves 20% of your available bandwidth for its 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.”
100% of your connection is always available, however if a high priority program requests bandwidth Windows will force at least 20% for that programs use. It’s called QoS, so if your using voice on MSN messenger and you have set this to 0% expect bad performance.