Increase your Bandwidth by 20%
Windows uses 20% of your bandwidth! Get it back
A nice little tweak for XP. M*crosoft reserve 20% of your available
bandwidth for their own purposes (suspect for updates and interrogating
your machine etc..)
Here's how to get it back:
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, and 2000
other OS not tested.