This is a nice little tweak to get 20% of bandwidth back.Microsoft reserve 20% of your available bandwidth for their own purposes (suspect for updates and interrogating your machine etc..).
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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, 2000 and 2003 but not sure about
other o/s’s.
Here are the screen shots -
Has this increased your browsing speed. 20% should be a notable increase. Nice tip.
Didn’t even know this was implemented. I’ll give it a try right away. Thanks for the tip!
< <<---Moderated---->>>. Its a myth that has been floating around on the internet for years and I am surprised to see that people are still falling for it.
You can read Microsoft’s response here
This myth was debunked years ago. I found a tweakxp article regarding this that dates back to 2003.
I hope this clears up any confusion
This wont increase your internet speed by 20%. Even M$ is not stupid enough to do something like this.
Dear pallab , I would appreciate if you are polite while commenting. Yeah its my mistake as I didnt do much research on this. I use 1mbps broadband connection , hence 20% increase hardly matter for me. Anyway thanks for shedding some light on this. Knowledge increase when shared ..
I am sorry you felt I was rude. Well I suppose BS came off as a strong word. However my intention was never to be disrespectful to you
. As I mentioned in my original comment, I was just trying to clear up any confusion you had regarding the QoS bandwidth reservation setting.
And you are one lucky guy to have 1mbps broadband.
Its ok pallab. Yeah that word sounded strong and I was left with no other choice than to moderate it. I should say sorry for that.
1 mbps in the office yaar, wish I had same thing at my room also
I have used the method exactly shown here and found that my internet speed has been increased by 25% so thanks a lot.
Padhamanabha Sharma
It may be a debunked myth, but my max download went from 45KB/s to about 75KB/s after doing this.
Thanks for the tip-I am going to try it out
I don’t even know how much speed my Internet has but it is slow at times
@tim Ahh , thanks for the info. Well, if it increased for you must do for others also
@emmaS Try it out and if it works do leave a comment here