Disable bandwidth limit in Windows Vista

[wingeek]

For windows Vista Users only. Windows Vista keeps 20% of your Internet bandwidth reserved for its personal usage. But there is a trick to utilize your full internet bandwidth . You can use this trick to accelerate your internet speed. 20% acceleration really makes difference , at lease for me it makes. Just follow the following steps to accelerate your internet speed.

1. Run GPEDIT.MSC in start menu.
   
   
2. Under Local Computer Policy click or expand Adminstrative Templates
   
   
3. Now click on Network
   
   
4. Then click on Qos Packet Scheduler
   
   
5. Now double click Limit reservable bandwidth

You will see Not configured which is the default settings but in reality Vista has already taken 20% of your bandwidth to reserve for updates

Now click on Enabled then in the Bandwidth limit (%) set it to 0 then click apply then reboot.

Windows XP users refer this : Increase your bandwidth in Windows XP

[Dwight]

That's weird. If it takes 20% of my bandwidth how is it I get peak download speed? I have a 1.5 Mbps connection and get 160-170KBps down. I get full download speed and never see a 20% decrease.

[TheGreatOne]

This won't magically speed up your internet by 20% though if that's what you're hoping for. It's only used if applications specifically ask for it, otherwise 100% of your bandwidth is available.