Post by Yona Maro on Nov 10, 2005 5:03:29 GMT -5
Windows uses 20% of your bandwidth! Get it back
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Windows uses 20% of your bandwidth! 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%.
works on XP Pro, and 2000 other OS not tested.
Does'nt work on winxp home
I do not know specifically about this topic, but - perhaps someone else can explain how MS can do this.
You generally have no idea of the bandwidth you are going to get - it depends on a bunch of factors - perhaps the best example being a wireless access point - in which you are gonna see large variation in observed b/w.
How then can MS 'reserve' b/w - which factors can they contorl that allows them to achieve this?
________________________________________
Windows uses 20% of your bandwidth! 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%.
works on XP Pro, and 2000 other OS not tested.
Does'nt work on winxp home
I do not know specifically about this topic, but - perhaps someone else can explain how MS can do this.
You generally have no idea of the bandwidth you are going to get - it depends on a bunch of factors - perhaps the best example being a wireless access point - in which you are gonna see large variation in observed b/w.
How then can MS 'reserve' b/w - which factors can they contorl that allows them to achieve this?