Increasing Internet Bandwidth in windows XP

Increasing Internet Bandwidth in windows XP

Windows XP by default allocates 20% of your bandwidth to Quality of Service. Which is not required for the desktop. You can remove this or reduce this value as follows:

1. Go to Start Menu -> Run
2. Type gpedit.msc and press [Enter] key
3. This will open Group Policy Editor
4. In this navigate to Computer Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Network -> QoS Packet Scheduler
5. Now double click on Limit Reservable Bandwidth
6. Make this Enabled
7. Change bandwidth limit to 0 (Zero) and click OK

Note: In case you want to allocate to some bandwidth limit to QoS then allocate very small value like 1 or 2.

Above configuration will give effective improvement in your bandwidth.