Bandwidth Tweak for XP users

[Homey]

A nice little tweak for XP Pro. Micro$oft 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


You'll pretty much only notice somewhat of a difference when you're actually downloading / uploading.

[sir-understeer]

I believe the last time I did that, nothing happened.

[Jbulldog25]

Don't work for vista?

>:O

[soma616]

honestly, no serious gamer uses vista.

and just so you know, i double boot but default to xp pro thanks to a little program called vistabootPRO 3.2

vista ftl

[Jbulldog25]

Originally Posted by soma616

honestly, no serious gamer uses vista.

and just so you know, i double boot but default to xp pro thanks to a little program called vistabootPRO 3.2

vista ftl

I dont like vista. It runs css like crap so I have to have choppy graphics for it to run smooth. I cant even read the text on my own spray D:

The thing is, my comp came with it and I dont wana mess anything up by lowering it to xp pro. i dont know anything about computers

[soma616]

Originally Posted by Jbulldog25

i dont know anything about computers

i am always willing to lend a helping hand when it comes to these sort of things.

just pm me if you ever want any help modifying to your setup.

[canttouchthis]

Whether you like it or not, gamers will slowly migrate to Vista for DX10, and simply because XP will eventually be dropped. Also, while this is a good trick homey, it doesn't do much for most people, because they're not limited by their network connection, but rather by the internet itself. If you get more than 80mbps (or roughly 40mbps if you're on wireles) you most likely won't notice a difference between that and 100 (or 54 on normal g wireless).