How To Increase Your Internet Speed By 20%

Posted on May 14th, 2007 by Jason

If you use Windows XP Professional then it is possible to squeeze an extra 20% out of your internet connection. By default Windows XP Pro holds back 20% of your Internet speed for various services like windows update and spyware checks.

If you want to tap into this locked speed then make the following changes:

1. Go to Start-> Run-> and type gpedit.msc
2. Expand the Administrative Templates branch
3. Expand the Network tab
4. Highlight QoS Packet Scheduler
5. Click on Limit Reservable Bandwidth and check the enabled box
6. Then Change the Bandwidth limit % to 0 %

Once you have done this click apply and restart your PC. After rebooting you should see a noticeable improvement in your net speed.

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33 Responses to “How To Increase Your Internet Speed By 20%”

  1. Tech stop on 16 Aug 2007 at 1:30 am #

    speed for various services like windows update and spyware checks. If you want to tap into this locked speed then make the following changes: 1. Go to Start-> Run-> and type gpedit.msc 2. Expand the Administrative Templates branch 3. Expand theNetworktab 4. Highlight QoS Packet Scheduler 5. Click on Limit Reservable Bandwidth and check the enabled box 6. Then Change the Bandwidth limit % to 0 % Once you have done this click apply and restart your PC. After rebooting you should see a noticeable

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  3. skoteinos on 22 May 2007 at 4:57 pm #

    My PC dont recognize my network adapter after this change. I try to back to 20% but error stil remain. ??????????

  4. Jatts cracker on 23 May 2007 at 6:45 am #

    It will only speed up browsing and if you try to do anything else with IE (like downloading) it will actually slow it down.

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  9. Brant Gurganus on 08 Aug 2007 at 11:12 pm #

    QoS does not work this way. If there are no QoS aware applications, then that bandwidth is available for anything. If it is QoS aware, then it is streaming video or something where you need a minimum amount of bandwidth for the desired performance.

  10. Danish Ahmed Abdullah on 17 Sep 2007 at 12:31 am #

    wonderful trick..definitely works,try it out..

  11. broni on 17 Sep 2007 at 1:13 pm #

    As for Vista, it won’t work in every version:

    Group Policy is included in domain-based versions of Windows Vista. The following versions support Group Policy:

    Windows Vista, Small Business Edition

    Windows Vista, Professional Edition

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  13. daemon on 12 Feb 2008 at 8:30 am #

    nice tip…tried it out…works perfectly, tnx :)

  14. Hardik on 16 Mar 2008 at 2:34 am #

    please tell me how i increase my broddband internet speed

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  16. imran on 19 Jun 2008 at 7:32 am #

    hey i coudnt find network tab in group policy. mine is XP

  17. yjhj on 19 Jul 2008 at 4:54 pm #

    cant fint qos packet scheulder in network ta……….help

  18. Nikesh on 24 Jul 2008 at 9:43 am #

    Hey there is not brandwidth limit in my computer
    it is windows xp professional 2002

  19. grindfreakmike on 16 Aug 2008 at 2:27 pm #

    i have vista home premium. is there something to use for broadband? i try to type in gpedit.msc and gpedit .msc2 and i get a none found message. whts up?

  20. feroz on 03 Oct 2008 at 10:55 am #

    excellent trick

  21. harry on 05 Oct 2008 at 9:53 am #

    cant fint qos packet scheulder in network branch……….help plz

  22. fred on 11 Oct 2008 at 5:55 am #

    i followed the steps & it doesn’t work.

  23. Larry Miller on 12 Oct 2008 at 1:18 pm #

    WRONG

    Windows does not reserve any portion of bandwidth for any purpose at any time. However, a QOS aware application may request priority bandwidth. Even if this occurs there will be no bandwidth reduction unless it is actively using it. Any unused bandwidth will be available to other applications.

    Automatic Update does not use QOS. It actually has a lower priority than other applications and uses only idle bandwidth that other applications are not using.

    References:
    http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?
    scid=KB;EN-US;Q316666

    Larry Miller
    Microsoft MCSA

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  26. ROBERT WILLIAMS on 22 Nov 2008 at 9:38 pm #

    Windows does not reserve ANY bandwidth for any purpose IN ANY WINDOWS VERSION, this is so much rubish and myth. MSDN MEMBER

  27. JAB_au on 14 Dec 2008 at 4:32 am #

    There is no 20% bandwidth gain, only the 20% of idiots that believe this myth.

  28. Jaidatta on 26 Dec 2008 at 9:04 am #

    Hi guys!I have a trick
    Increase your internet speed by 20% in
    windows Vista.
    Start>>Run>>(type gpedit.msc)>>Computer configuration
    >>Administrative Templates>>Network>>
    QoS Packet Scheduler
    On your right hand side of your windows select
    Limit reservable bandwidth(press enter)

    from the following option select Enable
    and make bandwidth limit from 20% to
    0% and then OK
    Speed will become increased by 20%
    Not illegal

  29. Viraj on 22 Mar 2009 at 3:46 am #

    after i open the administrative templates it shows dat here r no items to show in dis view
    i tried both extended n standard…….help

  30. Amit on 25 May 2009 at 12:10 am #

    does this really work

  31. femi engineer on 01 Jun 2009 at 12:20 pm #

    if you need to increase the speed of your network contact me for sure and real,at femtek98@yahoo.co.uk,femtek98@googlemail.com thaks apart of gpedit ,yhere is what you need to do.

  32. Rommel on 02 Jun 2009 at 10:07 pm #

    I observed that the speed of my laptop was 54mbps, so I try your tips hoping it will increase but after doing such thing I zero the bandwidth but after that still 54mbps. is there any other tips u can give me?

  33. oswald on 30 Jun 2009 at 2:23 am #

    thanks buddy works wonders

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