Take back 20% of your bandwidth from winXP

["Dude VanWinkle" <dudevanwinkle () gmail com>]

Man, I never knew about this till today:

http://www.realtechnews.com/posts/3113

Microsoft reserves 20% of your available bandwidth for its 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."

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Seemed to speed up my link

-JP

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