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A nice little tweak for XP. Microsoft 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.
Does'nt work on winxp home
I do not know specifically about this topic, but - perhaps someone else
can explain how MS can do this.
You generally have no idea of the bandwidth you are going to get - it
depends on a bunch of factors - perhaps the best example being a
wireless access point - in which you are gonna see large variation in
observed b/w.
How then can MS 'reserve' b/w - which factors can they contorl that
allows them to achieve this?
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