How To Increase Your Internet Speed By 20%

Tony Williams | May 12, 2007 | Comments

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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:

  • Go to Start-> Run-> and type gpedit.msc
  • Expand the Administrative Templates branch
  • Expand the Network tab
  • Highlight QoS Packet Scheduler
  • Click on Limit Reservable Bandwidth and check the ‘enabled’ box
  • Then Change the Bandwidth limit % to 0 %

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

Thanks to the Techie Blog for the tip.


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  • thanks for the reference man.
  • Technically, your internet speed (if it does increase) will increase by 25%
    do the math :P
  • kyle
    it only limits it during updates and update checks, i think. not worth doing it IMO
  • Hi there... i have tried this tweak somewhere last year on my Windows 2000 Pro but in the end i've started having problem with my BT downloads ... personally i think the bandwidth is reserved for a reason... or am i wrong? The problem started after the tweak and stopped after reformat the OS.
  • RRS
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  • josh
    Unless you're an experienced programmer or have time to always manually download for updates (which will definately be painstaking and time consuming), I do not recommend this tweak.
  • do you have trick to increase the downloading speed please tell me
  • I cant open gpedit.msc
    what can I do??
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