Speed up internet.

[The Guru]

Windows reserves 20% of your bandwidth by default. To get it back, go Start-Run-gpedit.msc and click on Computer Configuration-Administrative Templates-Network-QoS Packet Scheduler and double-click the Limit Reservable Bandwidth and set the value to 0. :icon_cool:

[RiffWraith]

All versions of Windows?

[LEX]

Windows reserves 20% of your bandwidth by default. To get it back, go Start-Run-gpedit.msc and click on Computer Configuration-Administrative Templates-Network-QoS Packet Scheduler and double-click the Limit Reservable Bandwidth and set the value to 0. :icon_cool:

Why only internet. Wouldn't it make the bandwidth open for intranet as well?

Yes, what version?

LEX

[RiffWraith]

Apparently this is for XP Pro and above.

Explanation:

Determines the percentage of connection bandwidth that the system can reserve. This value limits the combined bandwidth reservations of all programs running on the system.

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.

If you enable this setting, you can use the "Bandwidth limit" box to adjust the amount of bandwidth the system can reserve.

If you disable this setting or do not configure it, the system uses the default value of 20 percent of the connection.

Important: If a bandwidth limit is set for a particular network adapter in the registry, this setting is ignored when configuring that network adapter.

Not sure if this is going to affect anything else or not...

[Andrew J]

Misinformation abounds on this one on the net. See here (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc737728.aspx) for some info, but I'll quote the most important bit:


Limit reservable bandwidth - Specifies the maximum, total percentage of link bandwidth that all QoS-aware applications on this computer can reserve. If no QoS-aware application reserves any bandwidth, then this setting has no effect and all bandwidth is available for use by other applications. If a QoS-aware application reserves more bandwidth than it uses, then the unused, reserved bandwidth is available for use by other applications. The reservation does not ensure that the bandwidth will be available to the QoS-aware application because applications that are not QoS-aware might consume too much bandwidth. For example, the default value of the registry entry reserves 80 percent of the bandwidth for QoS-aware applications, but this does not prevent other applications from using more than the remaining 20 percent of the bandwidth.

In other words, this setting only takes effect if you are currently using a QoS-aware application on your system and the app has reserved some bandwidth. If you're using such an app, you probably want it to have some bandwidth reserved for it so it works properly anyway! If you're not, then don't worry about it.

-Andrew

[The Guru]

It speeds up my connection noticably, try it. :icon_cool:

[RiffWraith]

Just tried - didn't seem to do anything. But, I am not sure.

How are you measuring this?

[The Guru]

Checking by load times of web sites. I don't have any apps set to auto update. Sites that took a second to load take no time to load.