Dec 16
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%.
I have tested on XP Pro, and 2000
other o/s not tested.
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