Increase your bandwith by 20%

Increase your Bandwidth by 20%

Only Works On Xp Pro

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Windows uses 20% of your bandwidth! Get it back

A nice little tweak for XP. M*crosoft 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%.
works on XP Pro, and 2000
other OS not tested.

NICE TWEAK, THANX M8

Just a little background on what that "reservable bandwidth" is actually for.

*puts on retired network engineer hat*

QoS is "Quality of Service", and is used to specify priority on particular types of network traffic, usually in corporate networks. It's used for pretty much whatever purpose the network admins set it for, which usually means making sure that traffic that can be slowed down (downloads) give way to traffic that shouldn't , ensuring that protocols such as streaming video don't get laggy, that all traffic to the bosses PC runs fast, and that the network games the admins are playing don't slow down.

So, IMHO, changing this setting shouldn't have any adverse effect on a home-based network. Depending on your setup (QoS is usually only active when both the network card and router support it) you might not see any benefit either, but it certainly can't do any harm to try it and see.