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Posted: **Wed Jun 13, 2007 2:56 am**

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.

Posted: **Wed Sep 05, 2007 1:53 am**

WOOOW

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

IT HELPS

thank you

Posted: **Mon Sep 10, 2007 1:36 am**

Yea these where informative to me.

Posted: **Thu Oct 11, 2007 9:44 am**

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

Posted: **Thu Oct 11, 2007 5:49 pm**

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.

Posted: **Thu Oct 11, 2007 7:14 pm**

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

Posted: **Thu Oct 11, 2007 10:58 pm**

Does WinXP Home reserve the bandwidth at all?

Posted: **Fri Mar 14, 2008 11:54 pm**

but do they do the same thing on home edition?

Posted: **Sat Mar 15, 2008 3:56 am**

It would seem not, I tend to go at my full connection speed. And I'm on Home

Posted: **Fri Mar 28, 2008 8:53 pm**

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!)