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 Posted: Sun Aug 14, 2005 7:41 am Post subject: Windows uses 20% of your bandwidth, get it back 2 speed up |
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Windows XP uses 20% of your bandwidth !
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.
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Fahhem
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| Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2005 11:14 pm Post subject: |
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thanks! I was wondering why my internet speed was so much slower in Windows. I just thought it was the bulky OS and such, but its actually reserved bandwidth. I've looked through those settings before but I never read the bottom of the explanation.
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Aírmanareiks Þiudareiks
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| Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2005 12:37 am Post subject: |
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| Awesome, I never knew about that since I don't tinker around with configuration files. |
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JOKERz
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| Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2005 2:23 am Post subject: |
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Cool!!!!
Must get back my own!!!
Thanx dude!!
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Mulcifer
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| Posted: Sat Sep 03, 2005 11:15 am Post subject: |
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tntcheats
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| Posted: Sat Sep 03, 2005 2:20 pm Post subject: |
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From Microsoft themselves:
"There have been claims in various published technical articles and newsgroup postings that Windows XP always reserves 20 percent of the available bandwidth for QoS. These claims are incorrect."
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q316666
Don't mess with your configs, registries, or hardware, etc. without looking into it first.
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Vimialp
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| Posted: Sat Sep 03, 2005 4:07 pm Post subject: |
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I haven't played with it before and no one uses this pc but me, and it was set to disable and 0%.
I enable it anyway and now my answering time is 0.313sec from 0.360sec. thanks. |
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superstuntguy
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| Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2005 1:37 pm Post subject: sweetness |
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Sweetness dude, I cant wait to try it out,
and download more linux cds EVEN FASTER!!!  hehehehehheehehe  |
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Platypus
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| Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2005 10:40 am Post subject: |
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| hey, by doing this setting, can you still get windows updates and stuff like that??????? |
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Lupine1647
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Kenmcfa
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| Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2005 11:10 am Post subject: |
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Do you know how to access these settings under XP home?
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| Posted: Sat Oct 22, 2005 2:45 pm Post subject: |
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http://reviews.cnet.com/7004-7254_7-0.html
At first it was not configured. My speed was around 1.2 kbps.
When I enabled it and set it to zero, it sped up to around 1.5 kbps. I love it, thank you so much! |
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CharlieDeLong
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| Posted: Fri May 26, 2006 6:22 pm Post subject: |
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wow. I just did that and ran a bandwidth test and here's a "cut and paste" version of my results:
5 megabits per second
Communications 5 megabits per second
Storage 604.5 kilobytes per second
1MB file download 1.7 seconds
Subjective rating Awesome
Comparison:
-Cable in New York (avg. 2.84 Mbits/sec)
-T-1 (max. 1.54 Mbits/sec)
nice...nice...nice...
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cruocitae
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| Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 6:45 am Post subject: |
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BLOGGED!
Btw, thanks for the awesome tip 
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TekeeTakShak
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| Posted: Wed May 31, 2006 3:59 pm Post subject: |
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Dugg! Unfortunately I myself can't get this to work >_>
Mine freezes at the Admin Controls step. Oh well, guess I'll try it on my other computer.
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