How To Increase Your Broadband Speed In 3 Minutes

[wildwood]

Here’s a simple 3 minute tweak (XP Pro only) that will increase your broadband speed.

By default Windows XP reserves up to 20 percent of your connections bandwidth.

To override this reserve take the following steps.

Make sure you Log on as Administrator, not as a user with Administrator privileges.

* Start-> Run-> type gpedit.msc
* You will see [Local Computer Policy]
* Expand the [Administrative Templates] branch
* Expand the [Network] branch
* Highlight [QoS Packet Scheduler]
* Double-click [Limit Reservable Bandwidth]
* Check [Enabled]
* Change [Bandwidth limit %] to 0 %
* Click [Apply] [OK]

* Restart

Effect is immediate.

[Spidy]

only XP pro?...

[computer2slow]

Home doesn't have a group policy editor I think.

[Head_Monkey]

Home doesn't have a group policy editor I think.

Maybe you could use that XPTweakUI program thingy. Don't have XP Home to try this on.

[computer2slow]

Took a glance thru tweak and didn't see anything.

Found this

For those that don't know, the quality of service additions to TCP/IP
reserve a portion (20%) of all your network connection's bandwidth.
This isn't as bad as it sounds at first - let me explain: Quality of
Service is designed to provide applications that need guaranteed
transmission of data with the ability to reserve space on a network
for
themselves - examples of applications that need this could be video or
internet telephone systems.

If you are not running any services that need to use QOS then the
space "reserved" for QOS is not used. In the event you are running a
service that can take advantage of QOS, it can reserve a percentage of
your bandwidth if it needs it. If nothing needs QOS then the bandwidth
that would otherwise be reserved for QOS apps is available to all
things that want it.

Despite what various places might claim, turning this figure down or
off will not make your network games run faster on a normal home
connection, nor will it speed up general internet surfing. For the
average user, playing with this setting will not do anything to make
your system run faster or "better". Having said all that, if you still
want to change the setting here is how to do it.

And

Um, that would probably be 20% of the *link* speed. If you are like most people, you have an ethernet connection between your cable/DSL modem and your computer or router. The speed of that link is either 10mbit or 100mbit, but the actual bandwidth of most broadband connections is nowhere near that. So reserving 20% of 10mbit really doesn't do jack shit to affect your little broadband connection that maxes out at most a few mbits, and even less for the upload.

Or in other words, who the hell cares if the bandwidth to your cable modem is only 8mbit rather than 10mbit, if the connection itself is only 3mbit/384kbit (down/up) or similar.

They could be talking out their ass but it shounds good.

[Head_Monkey]

It makes good sense. Here in Oz, the fasted possible home internet connection you can get (without going over the top) is DSL at 24Mb/s. And if yer DSL modem is connected to yer computer thru the network card, at 100Mb/s, then there is still 73% bandwidth left. So teh 20% reserved for QoS will not effect yer internet connection.

However, if you have 2 PCs connected to each other via network cards at 100Mb/s, and you are transferring lots of data between e.g. a network game, or large file transfers, then the 20% reserved for QoS will get in the road.

So long story short, unless yer internet connection is faster than yer network card, forget it.

[Chief]

Here in Oz, the fasted possible home internet connection you can get (without going over the top) is DSL at 24Mb/s.

And the provider is who

[Head_Monkey]

And the provider is who

Telstra (the main telephone provider here) released ADSL2+ last month, so most major carriers will be offering it soon. Mind you, to get 24Mb/s, you ahve to be living inside the telephone exchange. I'm about 3.5Km away from my exchange, and average 600KB/s downloads.


ATM, I'm signed up with TPG Internet (http://www.tpg.com.au). Good deals, but they do change them regularly. In WA, there is a mob called iinet (http://iinet.net.au) that seem to service the western part of Oz. Deals loo kto be a little more expensive than TPG, but that will soon change. I say shop around!