Increase Bandwidth by Tweaking QoS in Windows XP Pro

 

 There's lots of methods that can be find over the internet about how to optimize our internet connection.

 But does most of the method works for us?? 

I ever encounter my internet speed was damn slow while browsing the net.

It seems the webpage loading takes forever to do so.

I bet you experienced that before too. 

There's lots of assumptions we could have on what makes our internet connection to be slow.

 Probably the internet browser, the site's server you are visiting, other programs that been installed taking up the bandwidth without we realizing or our system could be infected with virus.

 There's lots of possibilities that we can think off.

Well, to narrow it to the main cause it's time consuming and lots of effort needed to just simply to track it down.

Here i'm providing you a good tweak that I have collected that may help you get most juice out of your internet connection. Hope you find this tweak work and solve your internet speed issues.

 The following tweak applies only to Windows XP Professional edition.

The default system behavior is that all 100% bandwidth is available, however, if there is a running application that indicates to the OS it needs to send high priority/real time data, then as long as it has the socket open, Windows XP will restrict traffic to 80% of the bandwidth so that high priority traffic can be accommodated. Basically, applications can make this request to the operating system for QoS support using the QoS application programming interfaces (APIs) in Windows and this only applies if a specific app is requesting QoS.

If you’d like to change how much bandwidth is reserved for QoS (the default is 20% of the total bandwidth), do the following:
 

Make sure you’re logged in as “Administrator” (not just any account with admin privileges).
Navigate to START>Run and type: gpedit.msc
Navigate to Local Computer Policy > Administrative Templates > Network > QOS Packet Scheduler
In the right window, double-click the limit reservable bandwidth setting
On the setting tab, check the enabled setting.
Where it says “Bandwidth limit %”, change it to read 0 (or whatever percentage you want to reserve for high priority QoS data)
Click OK, close gpedit.msc
Under START > My Computer > My Network Connections > View Network Connections, right-click on your connection and under Properties (where it lists your protocols), make sure QOS Packet Scheduler is enabled.