Internet Broadband

This is more of a "counter what XP does" thing. In

other words, XP seems to want to reserve 20% of the

bandwidth for its self. Even with QoS disabled, even

when this item is disabled. So why not use it to your

advantage. To demonstrate the problem with this on

stand alone machines start up a big download from a

server with an FTP client. Try to find a server that

doesn't max out your bandwidth. In this case you want

a slow to medium speed server to demonstrate this. Let

it run for a couple of minutes to get stable. Then start

up another download from the same server with another

instance of your FTP client. You will notice that the

available bandwidth is now being fought over and one of

the clients download will be very slow or both will

slow down when they should both be using the available

bandwidth. Using this "tweak" both clients will have a

fair share of the bandwidth and will not fight over the

bandwidth.

this is for broad band connections. I didn’t try it on

dial up but might work for dial up.



1.make sure your logged on as actually "Administrator". do not log on with any account that just

has administrator privileges.

2. start - run - type gpedit.msc

3. expand the "local computer policy" branch

4. expand the "administrative templates" branch

5. expand the "network branch"

6. Highlight the "QoS Packet Scheduler" in left window

7. in right window double click the "limit reservable bandwidth" setting

8. on setting tab check the "enabled" item

9. where it says "Bandwidth limit %" change it to read 0



reboot if you want to but not necessary on some systems.