Microsoft reserves 20% of your available bandwidth

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blue-sky
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Microsoft reserves 20% of your available bandwidth

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Microsoft reserves 20% of your available bandwidth

You can get it back Microsoft reserves 20% of your available bandwidth for their own purposes like Windows Updates and interrogating your PC etc

You can get it back:

**** Start then Run and type "gpedit.msc" without quotes.This opens the group policy editor. Then go to:
Local Computer Policy
then Computer Configuration
then Administrative Templates then Network then QOS Packet Scheduler and then to Limit Reservable Bandwidth.

Double **** on Limit Reservable bandwidth. It will say it is not configured, but the truth is under the 'Explain' tab i.e."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%.It works on Win 2000 as well.
How did you like it.please comment.

Note:This trick works only for windows xp sp2 professional and windows 2000 professional.It does not work on windows xp sp2 home edition.


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Post by wadhah »

WOOOW

i play some games online and i always have a BIG number on the ping

IT HELPS

thank you
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Post by Gyanu »

Yea these where informative to me.
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Post by Tails5 »

It doesnt work on my system, I'm running Windows XP Home Edition.
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Post by iBye »

Tails5 wrote:It doesnt work on my system, I'm running Windows XP Home Edition.
Note:This trick works only for windows xp sp2 professional and windows 2000 professional.It does not work on windows xp sp2 home edition.
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Post by Stam »

I get an error some stuff is missing so I have to find a download to the group policy editor program
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Post by Tails5 »

Does WinXP Home reserve the bandwidth at all?
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Post by Tcoo »

but do they do the same thing on home edition?
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It would seem not, I tend to go at my full connection speed. And I'm on Home
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Post by Jason »

WoW, I did not know this--I guess one does really learn something new each day.

Pity it's not doable on Windows XP Home Edition :( ... but thanks for the heads up. (Naughty Microsoft!)
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