How to Speed up Your Bandwidth!
Microsoft Windows XP keeps about 20 percent of your available bandwidth for things like suspecting windows updates, and etc. But Microsoft doesn’t do this every single second of every day, which means that 20 percent of your bandwidth is just sitting there doing exactly nothing most of the time. So here is how to get that 20 percent extra bandwidth!
Go to Start -> Run -> type in gpedit.msc in the ‘Run’ box. This will open up the ‘Group Policy.’ From here, go to ‘Local Computer Policy -> Computer Configuration (you may have to expand it by clicking on the ‘+’ sign in the box to the left of ‘Local Computer Policy) -> Administrative Template -> Network ->QOS Packet Scheduler -> then double-click on ‘Limit reservable bandwidth.’ Now to get rid of this 20% wasted bandwidth, set the ‘Bandwidth limit(%):’ to ‘0.’ This will not make your system reserve bandwidth. This works on Windows 2000 and Windows XP.
If you would like to test on other systems, go ahead and leave a comment telling me if it worked!
This tweak does nothing.
The description of how QOS works is flawed. By default 100% of bandwidth is available to applications. QOS allows an application to request priority bandwidth, which is 20% by default. Few applications will do this. Even if an application receives priority bandwidth it does not effect other programs unless it is actively using it. I have this set to 100% on my computer with no reduction in bandwidth.
Larry Miller
Microsoft MCSA, Network+, A+