Re: Take back 20% of your bandwidth from winXP

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

On 6/2/06, MZR <mzrahman () gmail com> wrote:
> Reed Loden wrote:
> > Quoting Dude VanWinkle <dudevanwinkle () gmail com>:
> >
> >
> >>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..)
> >
> >
> > Be careful what you read, as this claim is false.
> >
>
> It surely is a FUD. More info: http://news.slash.sg/?p=78
>
> QoS may only be needed in special cases like when using ICS. So,
> disabling or setting the value to 0% may degrade QoS. That said, maybe a
> different value will work better in different cases.



I am still not convinced. I turned off QoS alltogether and I noticed a
big increase in speed, but maybe thats just me.

-JP
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