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I found out about this site from the Fred Langa newsletter.

Tweakxp is a site dedicated to improving and customizing Windows XP.

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Having bandwidth problems? Have a look here (on the TweakXP site mentioned above). Even if QoS is Disabled or Not Configured, XPP still reserves 20% of your bandwidth.
Open up a DUC, choose Properties/Networking and Install the QoS package. Then all you have to do is enable it, and reduce the reserve bandwidth to 0%. Full details here or :

1. You must be logged on as Administrator (not just an account with admin. privileges)
2. Start/Run and type gpedit.msc
3. Open (if necessary) Local Computer Policy
4. Computer Configuration/Administrative Templates/Network/QoS Packet Scheduler/Limit Reservable Bandwidth.
6. Enable and set to 0%.

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So QoS should be installed when using a PPOE account? Mine currently is not.

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No, mine never was installed either, BUT installed or not Windows reserves to itself 25% of your bandwidth. To prevent this, as I described, you need to Activate (install) QoS, then reduce its reserve to 0%. If you Disable it, it will again grab that quarter.

Rgds

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I have had a look at the settings and under QOS Packet Scheduler, I see 3 sub items, but not Limit Reservable Bandwidth. I am logged in as administrator to this computer, should this be network administrator?

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Hi
Are you properly logged in as Administrator, and not just a user with Admin privileges?
My suggestions were, I’m afraid, for Windows XP professional – I don’t know if Home Ed is the same.
What are the three sub-options?
I’m not running on a network either.

Rgds

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Hi Merc, Yes I am logged in as administrator of the local machine, not Network Administrator. Does this make a difference? I am running XPPro on an NT domain.

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Sorry guys I just re-read the instructions. I was looking for the “Limit Bandwidth” in the TREE view not in the CONTENTS. Found it and changed it OK!!

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Check out this thread over at PC911

“Yeah this is about the 3rd time it makes the rounds of PC911, it started with one of those typical Register brainless articles about QoS obviously made by somebody who didn’t have a clue what QoS is. You can forget about it, QoS is an Application API that will only have an effect in a network (Router Servers, Applications etc) taking advantage of it. It will prevent an application taking control of all the bandwidth, and you will see no effect in normal Internet traffic.
Different OS already have that service (Linux, Windows 2000, Solaris, Mac OS X etc) but Windows XP is as far as I know the first one with an interface to control it.
They say it is a technology MS is planting to take advantage of some .NET services, but this is only speculation.”

DaveA I am so far behind, I think I am First
Genealogy....confusing the dead and annoying the living

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What this article says, and the ones near it, is spurious. They are mixing up transmission speed, connection speed and bandwidth.
The real test of whether this tweak makes a difference is before you do it, to start to downwload a fairly large file from the net. Minimize and let it run. At the same time, start to download another largish file. When I did this it was clear they were competing for bandwidth. Start again, this time having made the tweak. Notice any difference?
Only for XP Pro, but not restricted to a network.

Rgds

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