Windows uses 20% of your bandwidth, here’s how to get it back

*Tested on Windows XP & Windows 2000 – My system is too shitty for Vista *

So I recently found out Microsoft reserves 20% of my available bandwidth for their own purposes (usually for updates or sending queries to your machine)

The key to getting that 20% back is as follows : -

Click on Start—>Run–> then type gpedit.msc and hit enter.

You’ll then see the Group Policy Editor open up and would need to go to : -

(on the Top left of the window) Local Computer Policy—>Computer Configuration—>Administrative Templates—>Network—>QOS Packet Scheduler—> (on the right side of the window) Limit Reservable Bandwidth.

Now Double-click on Limit Reservable bandwidth. You will see its “Not configured” but there are more details in the “Explain” tab which clearly indicates that : “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.”

To override the default setting you will have to ENABLE reservable bandwidth and enter a value of ZERO, thus disallowing the system to reserve any bandwidth and freeing up 20%.

Let me know if this works for any of you. You can email me at gorillaking@gorillafart.com

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