How To Increase Your Internet Speed By 20%

Posted on May 14th, 2007 by Jason

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

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

1. Go 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 % 0 %

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

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  2. 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. ??????????

  3. 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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  8. 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.

  9. 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

  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

    Windows Vista, Enterprise Edition

    Windows Vista, Ultimate

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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

  15. Increasing your net speed | Zrecko Techology on 05 Apr 2008 at 11:36 am #

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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?

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