How to increase Windows XP pro bandwidth
Posted: Tue Jan 01, 2008 11:42 am
If your like me, I'm always looking for a way to increase my internet speed. Well, here is an easy way to gain a 20% boost in bandwidth in Windows XP professional. You can do the same thing in XP Home, but it has to be done through a registry edit.
1. For the sake of anyone who may be skeptical, go somewhere and run a bandwidth test.
2. Make sure that QOS is checked in your local area connection properties and then click Start and then click run, type gpedit.msc and hit ok or enter.
3. Under Computer configuration on the left hand side, click the + next to Administrative Templates, click the + next to Network, then click on QOS Packet Scheduler, not the +, but QOS Packet scheduler itself.
4. Now on the right hand side, double click on Limit Reservable Bandwidth. If it's set to Not Configured or Disabled, change it to Enabled. If it's already set to enabled, then proceed to change the Bandwidth limit (%) to 0.
5. Click Apply, and then click OK and close the Group Policy Editor.
6. Re-run your bandwidth test and see if you didn't pick some speed up.
How does this work?? Seems Microsoft reserves 20% of bandwidth by default for windows updates and things of that nature that are deemed high priority. Doing this will turn that reserve off and allow it to be fully used by what your actually doing. It's easy enough to do and if you do find that you have a program that you depend on suffers because of priority conflicts, just change it back to the way it was.
1. For the sake of anyone who may be skeptical, go somewhere and run a bandwidth test.
2. Make sure that QOS is checked in your local area connection properties and then click Start and then click run, type gpedit.msc and hit ok or enter.
3. Under Computer configuration on the left hand side, click the + next to Administrative Templates, click the + next to Network, then click on QOS Packet Scheduler, not the +, but QOS Packet scheduler itself.
4. Now on the right hand side, double click on Limit Reservable Bandwidth. If it's set to Not Configured or Disabled, change it to Enabled. If it's already set to enabled, then proceed to change the Bandwidth limit (%) to 0.
5. Click Apply, and then click OK and close the Group Policy Editor.
6. Re-run your bandwidth test and see if you didn't pick some speed up.
How does this work?? Seems Microsoft reserves 20% of bandwidth by default for windows updates and things of that nature that are deemed high priority. Doing this will turn that reserve off and allow it to be fully used by what your actually doing. It's easy enough to do and if you do find that you have a program that you depend on suffers because of priority conflicts, just change it back to the way it was.