WinXP steals your bandwidth

Rooster · Post by **Rooster** » Thu Nov 29, 2001 9:05 pm

WinXP steals 20% of your banwidth!

Check it out

edit do to Nexus7's spelling error! hahaha Greg

dadx2mj · Post by **dadx2mj** » Thu Nov 29, 2001 9:57 pm

Good find the best part if you follow the link in the article it tells you how to regain that 20% of your bandwidth.

VidmanII · Post by **VidmanII** » Fri Nov 30, 2001 12:58 am

Thanks for the heads up.

I figured M$ was prolly stealing something from me.

tunis5000 · Post by **tunis5000** » Fri Nov 30, 2001 2:16 pm

I can't believe that this matters to anyone using DSL or Cable. QoS reserves 20% of your POTENTIAL Network bandwith, NOT your Internet Bandwidth. My download speeds remained the same since I have upgraded from Win98SE to WinXP. This basically limits the speed your network card tells XP it's running at. Probably either 10mbps or 100mbps. It's reserving 20% of that, not 20% of your cable/DSL bandwidth. If you do get 10/100mbps downloads, you're very, very lucky.

dadx2mj · Post by **dadx2mj** » Fri Nov 30, 2001 2:52 pm

I think Tuniss is right. I applied the tweak to disable the reserved 20% and did speed tests at DSL Reports before and after. The test were nearly identical.