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SilverVenom57 Posted: Sat, Sep 23 2006 1:06 AM
The Windows XP OS reserves 20% of your bandwidth for its own purposes like Windows Update. So to liberate this bandwidth:

1. Go to Start>Run. Then type "gpedit.msc", w/o quotes.

2. Click "Local Computer Policy", then "Computer Configuration", then "Administrative Templates", then "Network", then "QOS Packet Scheduler", and then double click on "Limit Reservable Bandwidth". (that was a lot of "thens")

3. Click on "Enable reservable bandwidth", then set from 20% to 0%.

4. Restart your computer and enjoy.
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xtremeskier97 replied on Sat, Sep 23 2006 1:13 AM
Only in Pro. gpedit.msc doesnt exist in Home.

And if you have to ENABLE it to set it to 0%...then it wasnt ENABLED in the first place.

I dont see this helping at all.

"There have been claims in various published technical articles and newsgroup postings that Windows XP always reserves 20 percent of the available bandwidth for QoS. These claims are incorrect. The information in the Clarification about QoS in end computers that are Running Windows XP section correctly describes the behavior of Windows XP systems.

http://support.microsoft.com/d...?scid=kb;EN-US;q316666 "

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SilverVenom57 replied on Sat, Sep 23 2006 1:18 AM
Good point on the Home vs. Pro. As for setting it to the "ON" position. If when it is "off" before, and you go to the "explain" tab it says that 20% is being reserved by default.
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xtremeskier97 replied on Sat, Sep 23 2006 1:23 AM
And BTW...I got that from here

http://www.realtechnews.com/posts/3113

Bottom line..you wont see a difference.

**EDIT** Someone in that link above gave a good point. It would be easier just to uninstall QoS in the properties of your network adapter than to go through all that. But either way...you wont see a difference.

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SilverVenom57 replied on Mon, Sep 25 2006 7:59 PM
Only time i've seen a difference, is that the windows updates download much faster, and that my download speed went up ~3kbps. I agree, almost nothing to even look at, but hey, it's there.
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Computwiz replied on Tue, Dec 5 2006 1:16 PM
what does it actully do, does it speed up download time, or speed up surfing??
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xtremeskier97 replied on Tue, Dec 5 2006 2:36 PM
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what does it actully do, does it speed up download time, or speed up surfing??


Nothing really.

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Computwiz replied on Tue, Dec 5 2006 3:36 PM
lol, i know that now, but whats the point doing it then
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xtremeskier97 replied on Tue, Dec 5 2006 3:50 PM
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lol, i know that now, but whats the point doing it then


See previous post.

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SilverVenom57 replied on Wed, Jan 24 2007 2:21 PM
Like I said above, windows updates now download a lot faster. Nice to have them download faster if your installing windows again and have a zillion updates to download. But I agree I didn't see any change in download speed, unless using a tool to measure it, and even then after averaging ~10 tests with each setting, it was only about 2.5Kbps. Small but only takes 10 seconds to do.
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darkshark08 replied on Mon, Jun 25 2007 4:20 AM
Would this tweak also work for Windows Vista Home Premium?
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Zack replied on Mon, Aug 6 2007 7:37 AM

 Didnt know that, so can it really work? Thanks for sharing anyway.

Can someone tell me whether AMD is better or should I get an Intel next?
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KenshinAMV replied on Mon, Aug 20 2007 6:05 PM

Yeah this is kinda bogus, I just disabled QoS to keep my system running smoother but, most people's NIC's (network interface card) are ethernet 100/10 which means it's a 100mbit connection (no matter what modem speed, the limit on the port is 100mbit).. But how many people do you know with a 100mbit connection? Windows still lets you use 80mbits, so it shouldn't slow you down a bit, that extra 20mbit  wasn't being used anyway, this might improve people on dialup connections or something but that's about it I believe =/

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trueg50 replied on Wed, Mar 19 2008 2:57 PM

 Yea, this is bogus, no way it hogs up more than 1% for itself.

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frg1 replied on Wed, Mar 19 2008 6:49 PM

 ive already seen this and from what ive heard is it will only use it if your at idle

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ice91785 replied on Wed, Mar 19 2008 9:49 PM

GUYS!! no reviving posts older than a month PLEEEASE....

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frg1 replied on Wed, Mar 19 2008 9:55 PM

 oh didnt see the date on the previos post but at least i didnt revive it this time

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trueg50 replied on Thu, Mar 20 2008 6:07 PM

 Wow, thought I checked the date on that too. 

 

Sorry!

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ice_73 replied on Mon, Apr 21 2008 11:16 PM

 

better way to speed up the internet is to uncap the number of connections windows xp lets you have 10. with a program you can get 50-unlimited. (just make sure you ahve good internet...  increasing the limit for dialup wont help :-p )

link to site to get program

http://www.lvllord.de/?lang=en&url=tools (this explains it a bit too)

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Riks replied on Fri, Feb 6 2009 11:25 PM

can't see much difference =\

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realneil replied on Tue, Oct 13 2009 10:18 PM

I remember doing this years ago when I only had a dial up connection. It made a difference then.

Now that I have Win7 and DSL it's no biggie.

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avalen replied on Wed, Jan 6 2010 11:44 AM

Any idea if this works for Windows 7 Ultimate 64x?

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mentaldisorder replied on Fri, Jan 8 2010 1:23 PM

I just tried it and I don't notice a difference.  On Win7 ultimate x64 that is.  I wasn't able to benchmark it because i got an ip error in Sandra.  You can try it, but I doubt you'll see a huge difference, if any at all.

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gibbersome replied on Thu, Jan 14 2010 4:27 AM

I remember trying this with no noticeable results.

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acarzt replied on Thu, Jan 14 2010 10:57 PM

I went and manually disabled MANY services with noticable results lol

I've got a handful of registry tweaks i've been meaning to test out and post up too. Just haven't had the time!

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