Friday, November 25, 2011

How to remove windows reserved bandwidth

Uncap windows

Microsoft has a minimum bandwidth allocated to itself and that is used for downloading windows updates and essential stuff for windows. This can be removed by a little tweaking to the registry. In uncapping windows reserved bandwidth you can get an increase of 20% in browsing speeds. To properly check this out without any changes first go to speedtest  and test the broadband upload and download speed. After getting the results of checking now you can do the instructions given below. The ways to reduce the reserved bandwidth for windows is as below.
Firstly go to start and type gpedit.msc
In the window which pops out click Admin templates>Networks>QOS packet scheduler.
In the window pop click Limit reserveable Bandwidth.
Then check enabled box.
The change the bandwidth from 20% to 0%
Now the bandwidth reserved for windows essential services is removed. Now again go to speedtest and check your upload and download speed. You will notice a marginal increase of 20% speed.

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