We’ve just changed our connection at my office. We’ve had a big drop on our speed connection.
Everybody knows that the broadband companies do not deliver the promised velocity of their connections, so how can you speed up your connection.
If you’re using Windows XP there’s a good trick to guarantee at least 20% faster broadband speed.
Basically Windows XP has a QoS Scheduler that reserves around 20% of your bandwidth for internal system use.
As I said, it’s impossible to get 100% of the promised speed, the system is “stealing” 20% !!
If you want to deactivate this bandwidth reserve follow the steps below:
- Start > Click “Run” and type gpedit.msc, click OK.
- Click “Computer Configuration” > “Administrative Templates > Network
- Click “QoS Packet Scheduler” > and Double Click on “Limit Reservable Bandwidth”
- After you’ve double clicked, you’ll see a pop up. Click on “Enabled” and type 0 (zero) in the Bandwidth limit. Click Ok
- Now go to “Control Panel” > “Network and Internet Connections” > right click on your connection and Chose “Properties” and then click on the box “QoS Packet Scheduler”
- Restart your computer.
That’s it, done, now you’ve got 20% more bandwidth!
Cheers
Lucio Dias Ribeiro
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Hi Lucio,
Thanks for it.
I’ve got my broadband with Optus, and I can’t rememebr the website, i could monitor minute by minute the bandwidth from them.
It’s really crap, they don’t even deliver at least 60% of most of the time.
What do you suggest?
Ring them up?
Thanks
Rene
Posted by Renee | October 17, 2007, 3:09 amYeah, so, setting the QoS Packet schedualer to 0 or disabling it isnt smart. if you work in the IT department at your work you need to be fired for being stupid. If you dont, then you need bo fired for being stupid and screwing up computers. Turning that off or setting it to 0 will screw up a PC faster then anything. Smart one
Posted by Fuzzyjedi | October 18, 2007, 12:13 amHi Rene,
Yes, I’d suggest you to ring them and complain.
FuzzyJedi
Thanks for your comment, I understand that QoS is a function at the network protocol level that allocates bandwidth to competing online connections. Residing in the transmitting machine, it determines how many packets are handed to each connection (each flow) at a given time. A packet scheduler makes its determinations by observing the packet flows from the applications or by request from a quality of service (QoS) protocol such as RSVP or Diffserv and I don’t see why it’ll be screwing up.
Please, let us all know the reason for it, I’ll be more than happy to delete my entry and publish yours (that’s all about constant learning)
Thanks again,
Cheers
Lucio
Posted by Lucio Dias Ribeiro | October 19, 2007, 1:52 amhi i am kashan it is very good trick of increasing the speed of internet
Posted by kashan | May 14, 2009, 9:09 amLucio,
Interesting post – I bet most people don’t understand that they can take measures to speed up their browsing. But let me as you something – in a world were most people aren’t savvy with the guts of their systems, or where mobile devices have limited bandwidth, should it really be the responsibility of the end user (consumers) to optimize?
I personally believe it’s the responsibility of website owners to take it upon themselves to bring the optimization to you. The problem is that most of them either don’t know how or simply neglect the practice.
My team released a tool recently that helps site owners find all their performance issues and walks them through fixing them. That’s the first step in speeding a website up. Even better, our proxy caches website content making sites 3x to 4x faster.
The goal here is to remove the burden from both the end users and web ‘masters’ so we can all get on with what we’re trying to do online without slow downs.
If you’re interested, give http://www.pagelabs.com a look – it’s our solution to this common and wide spread problem.
Posted by Tyler | January 28, 2012, 8:58 am