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274023 2004-09-20 03:14:00 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 o/s not tested.

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00falcon (3801)
274024 2004-09-20 04:17:00 This is well known - You're better off just getting rid of QoS altogether IMO!

Click Start
Settings
Control Panel
Network Connections
Right-click on your Dial-Up or LAN connection and choose Properties
Select QoS Packet Scheduler and click Remove


Chill.
Chilling_Silence (9)
274025 2004-09-20 07:48:00 > This is well known - You're better off just getting
> rid of QoS altogether IMO!

Is that easily reversable?
Greg S (201)
274026 2004-09-20 07:57:00 > 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 o/s not tested.
>
> -------------Copied from Internet------------------


before i try this, has any one tried this and does it actually work for dial up?
Patrick 2003 (277)
274027 2004-09-20 08:12:00 Yes its easy to reverse, and yes, Ive done it on _all_ PC's Ive worked on for the past 2 years! Chilling_Silence (9)
274028 2004-09-20 08:31:00 > before i try this, has any one tried this and does it
> actually work for dial up?

Yeah just did it though I can't tell any difference. On adsl so can't comment about dialup
Greg S (201)
274029 2004-09-20 08:46:00 It basically means now that it wont reserve XYZ amount for Windows Updates and Microsofts hidden stuff _IF_ it needs to be transferred. Chilling_Silence (9)
274030 2004-09-20 08:52:00 will is stuff my network up, or will my network be ok. BootyLicious (526)
274031 2004-09-20 09:07:00 It'll still work with a network Booty. Ive turned QOS off and the network is fine. Spacemannz (808)
274032 2005-09-23 21:11:00 can you do this on win98? MACIAN (6176)
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