Speed up Your Internet By 40 percent

[ErikStenger]

Microsoft reserves 20 percent of your available Bandwidth for their own purposes like Windows update and interrogating your PC etc .

If you are low on internet speed , you can get it back all . 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 percent. It works on Win 2000 as well

 

[ErikStenger]

So far it works. This site and others load up quicker.

 

[Supra]

Does this work on win 7?

 

[ErikStenger]

That's what I'm using now. Like I said it works.

 

[sixer9682]

Shit, I'll have to give that a try tonight when I get home

 

[Bob369963]

Good find. Thanks for sharing.

 

[amazon3d]

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[MotherMan]

my run tells me gpedit.msc doesnt exsist

 

[amazon3d]

Only on Windows 7 Professional/Ultimate, Windows Vista Professional/Ultimate, Windows XP Professional and Windows 2000.

 

[Frit0z]

mine shows no change. im averaging about a 17Mb/s Down with it on or off.

 

[amazon3d]

This may only affect link speed, eg a 1gb connection with gain 200mbps network speed. So if you are not using that speed already it won't matter.

 

[Duke]

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I only have 6Mb download so I didn't have a lot to gain. I like the find though... thx

 

[Soldier4Real]

After making changes to Group Policy you usually have to type gpupdate /force in the run bar and reboot for the changes to take affect. I'm not really sure this would make a difference for me though.

 

[Bobsama]

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[Dirty-Lex]

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Excellent find Erik thank you for sharing

 

[ErikStenger]

You're welcome.

 

[sixer9682]

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I'm also 6mb limit so not much, but a definitely noticeable difference.

 

[Zappypants]

Tweaking XP for Quicker Internet Speeds - How to Speed up Internet

Just so's everyone has an idea behind what the QoS Packet Scheduler does.

Edit: Not saying it won't work, didn't mean to come off that way, apologies if I did, but some funky things can happen

 

[Rocinante]

Zappy,

That guy had one thing right, as long as you don't have multiple programs asking for bandwidth that would exceed you ISP bandwidth. But a program like say teamspeak will never ask for more bandwidth then it is designed to. The tweak works good if you are on a dail-up or a wi-fi connection and just trying to browse the web. And, let me point out that some you might not see a big difference doing thos e speed tests, but do that same speed test while windows is performing a function that would use bandwidth.( win update)

 

[ErikStenger]

Basically it may or may not help you. Turn off anything that uses bandwidth then test it.