How to increase your internet speed or bandwidth for 20%
DetectorPro detects another useful tip which will help windows users to increase their internet speed or bandwidth for 20%. If you don’t know, by default, windows use 20% of your bandwidth. Microsoft reserves this 20% for their purposes (suspect for updates, report error or other similar things). With a little modification of specific windows function, you can back this 20% for you own use and increase your internet speed for 20%. This tutorial is updated and graphically explained. Click here for updated tutorial.
Instructions for increasing internet speed for 20%:
- Click: Start–>Run–>type “gpedit.msc” without the ” sign. This will open the group policy editor. Choose from menu: Local Computer Policy -> Computer Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Network -> QOS Packet Scheduler -> Limit Reservable Bandwidth
- Double click on Limit Reservable bandwidth. Windows will say it is not configured, but the real status is shown under the ‘Explain’ tab: “By default, the Packet Scheduler limits the system to 20 percent of the bandwidth of a connection, but you can use this setting to override the default.”
- Now, just enable reservable bandwidth, then set it to ZERO.
- That’s it!
This modification will not allow to Microsoft to reserve 20% of your internet speed for their purposes. Changing of this parameter to ZERO will not change windows performance; just will increase your internet speed and bandwidth.
Enjoy in faster surfing! Don’t hesitate to write me a comment and give me feedback or results.
Tags | Computers, Internet, Networking, Speed Up, Tips and Tricks
Hmm interesting. I’m always nervous about making registry changes, though.
don’t be nervous. This is not registry change, just simple modification. This will not change your windows performance, just speed up your connection
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This trick really works, amazing…
My internet speed increase radically. Thanks Detector!
How would I do something like this on a Mac? I have a Macbook, anyone got a suggestion or know what I should do? Send me an email at j85stew@hotmail.com if you have any recommendations. Thanks.
for Mac OS: You can find more useful speeding stuff here: DetectorPro: Speed Up. Maybe some post information will help you for speeding your Mac browsing..
This is the best trick for how to speed internet connection on Windows. And it really works. Thank You
Snake oil. Pure and simple.
First, this change doesn’t affect home computers. Only when certain applications seek to reserve bandwidth will it have an effect.
Second, if you’re using a home network, you may have read somewhere that your home router is ’100mbps’ or one hundred megabits per second. Sounds pretty fast right? Well it is. Right click on an empty area in your taskbar/startbar and click Task Manager. Go to the Networking tab. My computer is pretty up to date, so I have a “1 Gbps” link speed. That’s 68 times faster than the internet connection I buy from the cable company, which is “15 Mbps”.
So even if I did change my reservable bandwidth from 20% to 0%, and if we were to -pretend- it did something, the result would be that I wouldn’t gain anything. Even if 20% of my bandwidth were always reserved no matter what, the difference is that I’d have either 800 Mbps or 1000 Mbps, both of which are much higher than my cable modem’s 15 Mbps.
So even if we put on our pretend fairytale hats and let snake oil salesmen string us along, simple deduction shows that your snake oil won’t affect the vast majority of home users. And that’s if we give you the benefit of the doubt. If we don’t assume you’re already right, then you’re doubly wrong.
how can i use this for windows vista basic? i couldn’t find “gpedit.msc”.
hi!, after I expand the administrative template, only Windows Component appears, no such QoS something appears, my os is winxp sp2, can somebody email me what might be the problem and give me some related solution.. ThanK you!!, jmsantos1234@yahoo.com
I believe everyone might be more interested in increasing their bandwidth free of cost…i also wanted the same…. i got a solution here…was amazed to see something like this also exists……hope the below helps others as well…
http://dummy-essentials.blogspot.com/2009/07/increase-bandwidth-by-20.html
Enjoy
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thank you very for this information… it’s great! more power! and God bless…
There is obviously a lot to know about this. I think you made some good points in Features also.
im in vista,.. they cannot find gpedit.msc ,, please email me for solution,,
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Thank you
This solution is for Windows XP only
Thanks for the post!
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Thank you the tip, But obviously this works only for windows XP. You should find some way to speed up on Windows 7. That will be real refreshment…
You you should make changes to the blog title
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this is amazing. i have just followed the steps on my home computer and it works perfectly well. can i do same on all computers in my cyber cafe?
Thank you so much
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Yes, you can if your computers are Windows based.
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In order to increase internet speed you have to use an internet accelerator like Internet Cyclone.
Thank you for the information you have provided. Do you have anything for windows 7? Please post if you have any relevant information to increase the speed.
When I am using my laptop in cyber cafe, my bittorrent is slowed down. I know they are setting limit of the bandwidth/speed of the internet, but how do I overcome the restriction that is placed in cyber cafe? Please reply to this question. THank you very much.
Please reply here so other people who are in the same postion can find a solution.