this is good for the people who use xp or 2000

[Tiberiansun292]

i found this. wile searching the internet.

its called.

Windows uses 20% of your bandwidth Here's how to Get it back.

http://skyjuice.z42.us.nyud.net:8080/portal/os/all_about_windows/windows_uses_20_of_your_bandwidth_heres_how_to_get_it_back.html

i have use it and i can say it give a 20% in boots of internet.

[Stormy{CAN}]

Re: this is good for the people who use xp or 2000

Another bogus XP tweak,

Myth - "Disabling QoS will free up the 20% bandwidth reserved by QoS"

Reality - "As in Windows 2000, programs can take advantage of QoS through the QoS APIs in Windows XP. 100% of the network bandwidth is available to be shared by all programs unless a program specifically requests priority bandwidth. This "reserved" bandwidth is still available to other programs unless the requesting program is sending data. By default, programs can reserve up to an aggregate bandwidth of 20% of the underlying link speed on each interface on an end computer. If the program that reserved the bandwidth is not sending sufficient data to use it, the unused part of the reserved bandwidth is available for other data flows on the same host." - Source

from here (about 2/3 of the way down, http://mywebpages.comcast.net/SupportCD/XPMyths.html, as well as a few other bogus tweaks. And yet more bogus tweaks for XP,

http://www.tweakhound.com/xp/xptweaks/supertweaks11.htm

[Tiberiansun292]

Re: this is good for the people who use xp or 2000

i just refresh and it said it is inaccurate. so wtf.

[FingolfinKing]

Re: this is good for the people who use xp or 2000

Wait...what happened?

[Teh_Spambot]

Re: this is good for the people who use xp or 2000

Wait a second here, that still means these little programs can still be using it if theyre sending data.

Me, id disable the program if its non essential, and see if it makes a diff. Cant hurt.

[Stormy{CAN}]

Re: this is good for the people who use xp or 2000

Wait a second here, that still means these little programs can still be using it if theyre sending data.

Me, id disable the program if its non essential, and see if it makes a diff. Cant hurt.

Only if you have something that uses QoS. Here is MS's take on it,

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

[UltrAdamSki]

Re: this is good for the people who use xp or 2000

i have tinkered with this and found it best left alone, and i am normally always up for a tweak, but with it set to 0% or a low figure from its default of 20% any windows updates would take a nightmarish length of time to download, kind of like throttling your connection to 1kb and letting it download 20mb of updates :-(

at its deafult it is not reserving 20% of your net connection and hogging it for itself all the time, all it means is that when it comes to wanting to download updates in the background it will utilize 20% of your connection, then after its finished, for illustrative purposes, lets say your connection is back to 100% speed, whilst before it was at 80% during those downloads, i am sure there are other areas of the windows operating system that send and recieve background traffic other than updates, but dont know them off top of my head.

and to use this, if you wanted to change it from its default, you would have to make sure in your net adaptors config that where it list all tcpip, file and printer sharing etc, that QOS is ticked and present, as that service is what includes this setting in your connection.