Windows Uses 20% Of Your Bandwidth - How to Get it back!
Re: Windows Uses 20% Of Your Bandwidth - How to Get it back!
Jumping on the "can't find the file" bandwagon. Is there an address I'm supposed to follow? I'm on XP Pro
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Re: Windows Uses 20% Of Your Bandwidth - How to Get it back!
Hmmmmm..... when I tried it my Firewall told me something was trying to create a new folder and/or install something,so I canned it. Maybe will try it again later. Thanks for the post though.
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It seems like it goes a bit smoother, thanks for the data.
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Re: Windows Uses 20% Of Your Bandwidth - How to Get it back!
Hmm mine misses some files. I guess I don't have access to those things.
But still sounds like an awesome tip to me =)
But still sounds like an awesome tip to me =)
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Re: Windows Uses 20% Of Your Bandwidth - How to Get it back!
I'm sorry, but this tip is actually not the best one. It's one of the common myths, that actually work vice versa.
This tip made the rounds with people believing that Microsoft always allocates 20% of your bandwidth for Windows Update. According to the instructions, you were supposed to disable QoS in order to free up bandwidth. Unfortunately this tip was not only wrong, but disabling QoS will cause problems with applications that rely on it, like some streaming media or VoIP applications.
Rather than taking my word for it, you can read the official Microsoft response: "There have been claims in various published technical articles and newsgroup postings that Windows XP always reserves 20 percent of the available bandwidth for QoS. These claims are incorrect... One hundred percent of the network bandwidth is available to be shared by all programs unless a program specifically requests priority bandwidth."
So be careful people, when you're jumping the gun
This tip made the rounds with people believing that Microsoft always allocates 20% of your bandwidth for Windows Update. According to the instructions, you were supposed to disable QoS in order to free up bandwidth. Unfortunately this tip was not only wrong, but disabling QoS will cause problems with applications that rely on it, like some streaming media or VoIP applications.
Rather than taking my word for it, you can read the official Microsoft response: "There have been claims in various published technical articles and newsgroup postings that Windows XP always reserves 20 percent of the available bandwidth for QoS. These claims are incorrect... One hundred percent of the network bandwidth is available to be shared by all programs unless a program specifically requests priority bandwidth."
So be careful people, when you're jumping the gun
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Re: Windows Uses 20% Of Your Bandwidth - How to Get it back!
Testaccount wrote:So in simplification:Raynor wrote:I'm sorry, but this tip is actually not the best one. It's one of the common myths, that actually work vice versa.
This tip made the rounds with people believing that Microsoft always allocates 20% of your bandwidth for Windows Update. According to the instructions, you were supposed to disable QoS in order to free up bandwidth. Unfortunately this tip was not only wrong, but disabling QoS will cause problems with applications that rely on it, like some streaming media or VoIP applications.
Rather than taking my word for it, you can read the official Microsoft response: "There have been claims in various published technical articles and newsgroup postings that Windows XP always reserves 20 percent of the available bandwidth for QoS. These claims are incorrect... One hundred percent of the network bandwidth is available to be shared by all programs unless a program specifically requests priority bandwidth."
So be careful people, when you're jumping the gun
Windows DOES reserve 20% however that 20% is reserved for other applications that may Automagically request a connection without your permission - IE say Xfire's autopatching feature.
Now while that is good, it also has a bad point. It is more often than not that this 20% is also utilised -without permission- by viruses, Helpers, and sub programs. If you don't know what a helper is have a look at your tasktray for the obvious ones like iTunes, MSN Messenger, Error Reporting, Limewire. There are more though if you look in services on the Task Manager however some of these are hard to discern from helpers.
I assume that by setting the reserve to 0% that means that ALL the bandwidth will be used DIRECTLY on whatever you choose to open.
Now as gamers setting the value to 0% is anything but bad. While playing a game online you aren't going to be doing anything else, ie downloading as DL'ing will ruin your ping etc.
So this actually helps.
After all unless you've told it to connect to the internet then why would it need access?
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You want to know why Microsoft posted that explanation -
Because they're referring to their very own Windows Error Reporting system. The annoying program that popups without asking whenever something closes in a manner it doesn't like, and then proceeds to hog all your CPU, and if connected to the internet Your bandwidth too.
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Re: Windows Uses 20% Of Your Bandwidth - How to Get it back!
nice m8
Will try this , and set this my other machine's
Will try this , and set this my other machine's
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Thanks for the heads up.
I'll give it a go...
I'll give it a go...
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Well, I'll give this tip a go. I'll post back if theres been any issues. Thanks!
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Re: Windows Uses 20% Of Your Bandwidth - How to Get it back!
at first i couldn't find the "gpedit.msc" so i rebooted and worked like a charm...thanks!
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Re: Windows Uses 20% Of Your Bandwidth - How to Get it back!
you beat me to the post nice work. your internet connection barely even uses 20% of your 100Mb LAN .. so think about it? lol You want more bandwidth? get FIOS and a gigabit lan. GGRaynor wrote:I'm sorry, but this tip is actually not the best one. It's one of the common myths, that actually work vice versa.
This tip made the rounds with people believing that Microsoft always allocates 20% of your bandwidth for Windows Update. According to the instructions, you were supposed to disable QoS in order to free up bandwidth. Unfortunately this tip was not only wrong, but disabling QoS will cause problems with applications that rely on it, like some streaming media or VoIP applications.
Rather than taking my word for it, you can read the official Microsoft response: "There have been claims in various published technical articles and newsgroup postings that Windows XP always reserves 20 percent of the available bandwidth for QoS. These claims are incorrect... One hundred percent of the network bandwidth is available to be shared by all programs unless a program specifically requests priority bandwidth."
So be careful people, when you're jumping the gun
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