Windows uses 20% of your bandwidth, get it back!

**rohanlive** · 10-01-2004, 06:20 AM

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.

**tricky_linux** · 10-02-2004, 02:09 PM

above steps doesn't work with window 98.
there is no gpedit.msc

**admin** · 10-02-2004, 04:02 PM

It will work only on Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows 2003.

**admin** · 10-02-2004, 04:06 PM

Thanks rohanlive for the TIP.

I have done on my computer. My OS is Windows 2003 Standard.

Hope it will speed up the connection :D

**Incubus** · 10-04-2004, 04:05 PM

20% :roll:
I don't believe it's that much...

**zerodog.bizhat.com** · 10-18-2004, 04:08 AM

Don't forget about M$'s drizzling LoadQM.exe ... make sure you fix that leak as well...

**ZooM** · 10-18-2004, 04:52 PM

That's true. WindowsXP has even mo such issues...

And this is my pice of advice 4 llamas, that donno their OperationSystems such well:

- download some tweak things, then repair this shit with ONE CLICK!

*here's da link to TuneUp Utilities:

http://tuneup.swmirror.com/TU2004TrialEN.exe

Kind regards fellas! 8)