Increasing Your BandWidth By 20%

[infojoe]

Microsoft reserves 20% of your available bandwidth for their own purposes like Windows Updates and interrogating your PC etc

To get it back:

Click Start then Run and type "gpedit.msc" without quotes.This opens the group policy editor.

Then go to:
Local Computer Policy then Computer Configuration then Administrative Templates then Network then QOS Packet Scheduler and then to Limit Reservable Bandwidth.

Double click on Limit Reservable bandwidth. It will say it is not configured, but the truth is under the 'Explain' tab i.e."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%.It works on Win 2000 as well.

 

[Excess]

Ok, question. Is this supposed to be for XP Home Edition or Pro Edition? I have Home but I get a "windows cannot find "gpedit.msc" message.

 

[Yet_One_More_Idiot]

Ok, question. Is this supposed to be for XP Home Edition or Pro Edition? I have Home but I get a "windows cannot find "gpedit.msc" message.

I got that message too. I don't think this file exists on Windows XP Home computers....or maybe it does, but it has a slightly different name?

 

[His Divine Shadow]

XP Home is missing a number of tools that other versions do have. A number of XP Professional's advantages have to do with its additonal tools. I was able to use this trick (And a good one at that!), but only because I don't have XP Home: I have Media Center 2005. After some investigating, I can conclude that, indeed, XP Home does not have this tool. It is not capable of using it even if the file is pasted into the system32 directory.

 

[infojoe]

Yes, HDS... I'm using Win xp pro also.

I know it also works on Win NT and win 2003 as well. Its a pity it doesn't work on home. I think its really cheeky for microsoft to steal 20% of bandwidth by default.

 

[DarthGrinn]

Thanks to that tip, new to me 🙂 and here I thought I had my XP pro rig as tight as possible. Will post back if I notice any improvements!

 

[LonelyKimiko]

Thanks a lot for this 😀 . Hmm, policy editor! This gives me a new places to screw around with my computer 😀 .

 

[Journia]

Thanks a lot for this 😀 . Hmm, policy editor! This gives me a new places to screw around with my computer 😀 .

Oooh, kimiko's gonna like this..

 

[Yet_One_More_Idiot]

XP Home is missing a number of tools that other versions do have. A number of XP Professional's advantages have to do with its additonal tools. I was able to use this trick (And a good one at that!), but only because I don't have XP Home: I have Media Center 2005. After some investigating, I can conclude that, indeed, XP Home does not have this tool. It is not capable of using it even if the file is pasted into the system32 directory.

I thought this was the case. Fudge... 🙁

 

[storm7400]

does this work with windows 2000?

 

[LonelyKimiko]

I've read up on the issue. This fix only works with Windows XP Proffesional SP2, and windows 2000, as far as I can tell.

 

[His Divine Shadow]

Media Center 2005 also, as HDS noted. I know so because I run it and it worked. 😛

 

[tickledorange]

What does this do again?

 

[His Divine Shadow]

Windows reserves 20% of your connection capacity for its own purposes. This tool gives you access to that 20%.

 

[tickledorange]

So is that just like hard drive space or RAM or something else or just overall?

 

[LonelyKimiko]

It means it takes up 20% of the speed of the connection you are getting, or rather the capacity of the connection. So if you were downloading something from the internet, and getting it as fast as your internet connectin allowed, windows would slow that down by 20%.

 

[tickledorange]

That makes sense. Thanks for the explination! LOL it probably won't help much anyway since dialup is always slow, but I gave it a try anyway.

 

[LonelyKimiko]

Every little helps ^.^ .

 

[storm7400]

I run windows 2000 on an old system and can't get this to work properly. Any input would be greatly appreciated...

 

[FeatherDaemon1]

I was rooting through the cellar and found this little thread. Does anyone know if this can be done with Windows Home XP? Is there a module which can be installed which will instill this capability or even if the updated versions of windows is still even reserving the 20%?

 

[swords0]

The basic idea might work but it seems it could cause some problems with programs that need more bandwidth.
If you use uTorrent for one, the change could allow it to "steal" bandwidth that was otherwise used by the internet browser.

 

[poppameth1]

Just a little FYI. QOS Packet Scheduler doesn't work the way you seem to think it does. It does not constantly reserve this bandwidth. This bandwidth is "reservable" but not necessarily reserved. It only works on QOS enabled networks, which the internet is not, and most local networks are not. It's also dependent on whether your NIC support QOS. There are very few applications that can use this feature on their own. This tweak has been proven many times to be useless.

If you are that worried about it, go to your network connection settings, right click your NIC connection and choose properties. Untick the box beside QOS Packet Scheduler and apply the changes. It's now disabled and you don't have to worry about it. This has been shown to help a little with online gaming.