How to Increase Your Internet Bandwidth by 20 Percents

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I found this trick when searching through tutorial archives in my 80Gigs crowded hardisk. Haha, it’s worth to try. I dunno can it be applied in shared connection, because in Indonesia most common user use warnet (cyber café) to access internet.

Here we go…

A nice little tweak for XP. Microsoft reserve 20% of your available bandwidth for their own purposes (maybe for updates and interrogating your machine etc..)

Here’s how to get it back:

1. Click Start > Run…

2. Type gpedit.msc

3. Point to this location :

Local Computer Policy > Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Network > QOS Packet Scheduler > Limit Reservable Bandwidth

4. Double click on Limit Reservable bandwidth. It will say it is not configured, but the truth is under the ‘Explain’ tab

5. "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."

6. So the trick is to ENABLE reservable bandwidth, then set it to ZERO.

7. This will allow the system to reserve nothing, rather than the default 20%.

8. Tested on XP Pro and 2000

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Melonie Kirkland (Who am I?) Says:
November 13th, 2008 at 12:18 am
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Wasteing 20% of Your Bandwidth Myth (Who am I?) Says:
February 2nd, 2009 at 4:58 am
Are you aware that this is a Myth. Windows doesn’t actually reserve 20% of your bandwidth all the time, it priorities 20% to programs that request high priority access to your network connection. This is part of QoS.

100% of your connection is always available, however if a high priority program requests bandwidth Windows will force at least 20% for that programs use.
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