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purposes like Windows Updates and interrogating your PC etc

You can get it back:

-Click Start then Run and type "gpedit.msc" without quotes.This opens the group policy editor.
-Then go to:Local Computer Policy
-then Computer Configuration
-then Administrative Templates
-then Network then QOS Packet Scheduler
-and then to Limit Reservable Bandwidth.


Double click on Limit Reservable bandwidth. It will say it is not
configured, but the truth is under the 'Explain' tab i.e."By default,
the Packet Scheduler limits the system to 20 percent of the bandwidth
of a connection, but you can use this setting to override the default.

So the trick is to ENABLE reservable bandwidth, then set it to ZERO.
This will allow the system to reserve nothing, rather than the default
20%.It works on Win 2000, Vista, and 7 as well.

Thanks will be appreciated.

Would the improvement be noticable enough to see on speedtest?
I guess 20% would only show there if you were already over 20 mbps.
Anything in gaming consules that is similar?

i'm sure this is for xp & vista

To me this is mostly for XP but it does work for Vista and 7...So try it out

Just done this, now to see if I notice any difference I should do since my internet speed usually is quite slow.

Yeah same for me.

Tried typing gpedit.msc and it's not there. It says not found.

yup, same thing happened to me