Speed up your internet 20%

Speed up your internet 20%

Microsoft reserves 20% of your available bandwidth for their own purposes like windows Updates and interrogating your PC et.

Speed up your internet 20%

You can get it back:

Click Start then Run and type "gpedit.msc" without quotes. 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 i.e." 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%.It works on Win 2000 as well.