Xp reserves 20% of your band with for work

But what do you do if you're a home user who prefers the Pro version? Personally, I want to take full advantage of my 1.5Mbit SDSL line. Well, luckily, there's a fix.

To unreserve your 20 percent of bandwidth, first log in as the actual Administrator (hold down Ctrl-Alt- Delete at the login screen if you're a power user who uses the Fast User Switching screen). Now go to the Start Menu and select Run.

Type gpedit.msc and press Enter.

Expand " Computer Configuration,"

Then go to " Administrative templates,"

Then "Network, " and select the QOS Packet Scheduler."

Double click the limit Reservable Bandwidth" key, and check the "Enabled" item on the Settings tab. Change the the'Bandwidth limit %" toO, then click Apply and exit gpedit.msc.


If you still have QoS enabled on your network, this should free up that 20 percent.

There was a lot of controversy a while back about this tweak, and I just wanted to post it up to let you know that it is available. I have done it and to be honest I dont see the big improvement, but then again I am not that picky either!
try it out, if you dont like it, you can always undo what you did.
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