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WARNING: MESSING WITH YOUR REGISTRY CAN F*CK YOU UP!

This is a nice little tweak to get 20% of bandwidth back.Microsoft reserve 20% of your available bandwidth for their own purposes (suspect for updates and interrogating your machine etc..).

• 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, 2000 and 2003 but not sure about
  other o/s’s.

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r u sure this works, i don't want my internet to be gone ;)

I forgot to add the warning..I can't test this as I don't think Windows XP darklite has it, but I've done it before on other OS's :P.

This is a myth from the days when rock and roll was young ;)

Clarification about the use of QoS in end computers that are running Windows XP

As in Windows 2000, programs can take advantage of QoS through the QoS APIs in Windows XP. One hundred percent of the network bandwidth is available to be shared by all programs unless a program specifically requests priority bandwidth. This "reserved" bandwidth is still available to other programs unless the requesting program is sending data. By default, programs can reserve up to an aggregate bandwidth of 20 percent of the underlying link speed on each interface on an end computer. If the program that reserved the bandwidth is not sending sufficient data to use it, the unused part of the reserved bandwidth is available for other data flows on the same host.

Another thing clarified. ^^ I already thought it of something strange. Since it would be stupid to cap 20% of the connection of for nothing. =)

Thanks for the clarification. ^^

Greetings, Elonoir.

p.s. This is one of the reason why should check things before you post them. ;) There are a lot of myth's like this swarming around on the net. ;)

Disbelievers!!!

Next your going to tell me that contraption I just ordered from Izbekistan will not bump up my mileage by 400% Short sighted people... ;)

thank you very much

I deeply regret for writing the post above . I know i just slowed the connection by 20% to all the happy users of the forementioned "hack" .I deserve to be stoned ::PP

MESSING WITH YOUR REGISTRY CAN F*CK YOU UP!
thats true Therefore I will not try. Though it is possible in vain

OOooo fancy, ill save this and try it later :)